Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not capable of being irrigated; so situated that irrigation is impossible.
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Examples
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His glad tidings: the top offer for Buzz’s dry-rotted, shadeless, rock-laden, non-irrigable, poorly located and generally misanthropic farmland was fourteen dollars an acre, the offerer, the pastor of First Pentecostal Divine Eminence Church, who wanted to turn it into a cemetery for the sanctified pets of members of his congregation.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
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"Subsidy for irrigable areas will be Rs 4,000 crore and that for non-irrigable areas Rs
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