rainfed
adjEtymology From rain + fed.
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Supplied with water by rain (only).
Of land etc.
- 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 – […]2017, Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...: