rainfed en · ADJ
Etymology
From rain + fed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of land etc.) Supplied with water by rain (only).
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 – […]
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