unirrigated
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈɪrɪɡeɪtɪd/
:
no irrigado
- The study showed that unirrigated land produces lower yields compared to irrigated fields.
- unirrigated fields
Examples
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Canterbury irrigated land is about $700-$1,000/ha, unirrigated land is about $300-$500/ha.
Blog text (15) -
PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): FIG. 2 -- View of an unirrigated vineyard thriving near Acu.
Academic text (1994) -
I was always astonished by their faith in their ability to establish a little kingdom of righteousness on two hundred dunams of irrigated land and one thousand dunams of unirrigated land.
Fiction book (1993) -
Prairie dogs build new colonies on untilled and unirrigated fields, dig up corn seed, and eat vegetable transplants and alfalfa on adjacent farms.
Academic text (2018) -
The critic attacks my argument that roasting ears would be available from Little Colorado River Valley fields by April 20 but not from Black Mesa fields, claiming that unirrigated Black Mesa maize could be planted in March.
Academic text (1993) -
Farmers in the region often struggle to grow crops in unirrigated fields during the dry season.
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Many plants thrive in unirrigated conditions, relying solely on natural rainfall for water.
Synonyms
Fields that people do not water and that depend only on rain
Surface Forms
Morphology
unirrigated = irrigated (transparent) = un + irrigate + ed
A straightforward negative prefixation: 'un-' added to 'irrigated' yields 'not supplied with water', which learners can derive from the base.
Etymology
Unirrigated comes from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and irrigate, from a Latin word that means 'to water'. So unirrigated land is land 'not watered' by pipes or channels, which explains why it often grows less food.
