Definitions for irrigation

irrigation ir·ri·ga·tion

Spelling: [ir-i-gey-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌɪr ɪˈgeɪ ʃən/

Irrigation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 293 anagrams from letters in irrigation (agiiinorrt).

Definitions for irrigation

noun

  1. the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
  2. Medicine/Medical. the flushing or washing out of anything with water or other liquid.
  3. the state of being irrigated.

Origin of irrigation

First recorded in 1605-15, irrigation is from the Latin word irrigātiōn- (stem of irrigātiō). See irrigate, -ion

Examples for irrigation

irrigation is the sole means of fertilizing, and it seems to be all the soil requires.

It thus falls to IS to provide drinking water and irrigation to massive areas of farmland.

There was water in it; it was part of their irrigation system.

It will endure almost any amount of forcing, by liquid manures or irrigation.

Each year their fields need at least 53 billion cubic meters of water for irrigation.

irrigation there's just a question of power—that's how he looks at it.

The air mixed with fertilizers and pesticides that for decades were washed from the fields into the sea by irrigation water.

The water for irrigation is costly, and should be made to go as far as possible.

Egypt's future irrigation and industrial needs require a major increase in the northward flow of the Nile River.

Later: a tall, silo-like cement building, apparently used for irrigation.

Word Value for irrigation
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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