Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to irrigation; irrigative.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to irrigation.

Etymologies

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irrigation +‎ -al

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Examples

  • However, years of civil insecurity and unrest have led to the collapse of these irrigational schemes.

    Vinod Thomas: What Can the Horn of Africa Do in the Face of Severe Droughts? Vinod Thomas 2011

  • However, years of civil insecurity and unrest have led to the collapse of these irrigational schemes.

    Vinod Thomas: What Can the Horn of Africa Do in the Face of Severe Droughts? Vinod Thomas 2011

  • When I scrubbed in ENT theatres it used to be called an antrum washout but probably has a completely new and fancy name now, like post-nasal irrigational lavage or something but William Hague was entirely thankful to have his done by this method whilst he was Prime Minister

    Nightingale Part Two : The Fountain Pen 2008

  • When I scrubbed in ENT theatres it used to be called an antrum washout but probably has a completely new and fancy name now, like post-nasal irrigational lavage or something but William Hague was entirely thankful to have his done by this method whilst he was Prime Minister

    Nightingale Part Two : The Fountain Pen 2008

  • A case in example is dry lands in Vidarbha (Maharashtra) where the size of the average holding was 3.3 hectares, but the productivity was abysmally poor due to lack of irrigational facilities.

    Rahul Gandhi Seeks Flexible Norms to Implement Waiver of Farm Loans 2008

  • Also, at each place that there's a-- for instance, a bridge -- location of a bridge or a major irrigational area that's growing crops, you have a village that you have to get through.

    CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003 2003

  • This would aslso benefit the Loskop Dam, removing the threat to human health and restoring the potential irrigational use of the water and the natural aquatic ecosystem.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Great and then just, you mentioned earlier on the cable competition, you didn't see anything irrigational.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Check pollution of irrigational sources: Pudukottai Collector

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • "We have purchased 2.42 acres at Chinnaveerampatti to facilitate setting up of a sewage treatment plant for the scheme and the entire treated water will be released for irrigational purpose," Municipal Commissioner A. Sundarambal told The Hindu.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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