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rainfed

rainfed adjective: supplied with water by rain (only).

Adjective

rainfed (not comparable)

  1. 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 – […]2017, Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...

Origin of rainfed

From rain + fed.

Questions about rainfed

What does rainfed mean?
Rainfed means supplied with water by rain (only).
What part of speech is rainfed?
Rainfed is an adjective.

Words near rainfed in the dictionary

  1. Raineys
  2. rainfall
  3. rainfalls
  4. rainfallwise
  5. rainfast
  6. rainfed
  7. rainflow
  8. rainflows
  9. Rainford
  10. Rainford Junction
  11. Rainfords

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