nonirrigation
7.8
No artificial watering of land or crops
- noun
- Specialized
:
no irrigación
- The farmers faced challenges this year due to nonirrigation, resulting in a poor crop yield.
Examples
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The ongoing drought highlighted the effects of nonirrigation on local agriculture.
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In regions of nonirrigation, crops often rely solely on rainfall to thrive.
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Together, consumption of water for domestic, industrial, and livestock uses—that is, all nonirrigation uses—would increase dramatically, rising by 62 percent from 1995 to 2025 (see Figure 2 on page 29).
Academic text (2003)
Antonyms
How Irrigated
irrigation
45
3.4
- Specialized
45
3.4
nonirrigation
- Specialized
Surface Forms
nonirrigation singular
nonirrigations plural
Morphology
nonirrigation = irrigation (transparent) = non + irrigation
The prefix 'non-' straightforwardly negates the noun 'irrigation', yielding the absence of artificial watering.
Etymology
Nonirrigation is built from non- 'not' and irrigation, from irrigate meaning 'to water' land. So nonirrigation means 'not watering' fields with man-made systems but relying on rain instead.