Rainfed
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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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