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irrigate
(redirected from irrigable)

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ir·ri·gate (r-gt)
v.
To wash out a cavity or wound with a fluid.

irrigate
[ir′igāt]
Etymology: L, irrigare, to supply water
to flush with a fluid, usually with a slow steady pressure on a syringe plunger. It may be done to cleanse a wound or to clear tubing.


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No regional water plans were devised after the Johnston Plan of 1954, which allocated the water between the riparians based on the irrigable areas within the waters hed line.
Hungry for a piece of the new market, each Hispanic family in San Luis obtained title from Beaubien to a small tract of irrigable land along the Rio Culebra.
Based on cal culating a percentage of the Johnston plan's rough allotment to Jordan through a comparison of the irrigable land located in both the West Bank and the East Bank, it has been estimated that the Palestinian share to the Jordan River should be about 215 million cubic meters (mcm)/year.
 
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