irrigation

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French irrigation, from Latin irrigatio.

noun

  1. The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
    My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. … 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

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