Rainfed

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Supplied with water by rain (only). not-comparable

    "Water started to come down from here and there on the high bank, streamlets big as a finger, mere dripdrops, mistfalls that evaporated halfway to the surface of the river – these can't be rainfed, not here – […]"

Example

More examples

"Water started to come down from here and there on the high bank, streamlets big as a finger, mere dripdrops, mistfalls that evaporated halfway to the surface of the river – these can't be rainfed, not here – […]"

Etymology

From rain + fed.

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