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rainscaping

rainscaping noun: the use of water management and landscape design techniques to manage rainwater runoff.

Noun

rainscaping (uncountable)

  1. The use of water management and landscape design techniques to manage rainwater runoff.
    • This project is to create a responsive website to allow the public to input their various rainscaping practices into a database and viewed on a map.2015, L Theller, R Andreas, Rain Garden Inventory Responsive and Mobile Site
    • It will invest billions of dollars over a generation in planning, designing, and building community rainscaping, system improvements, and an ambitious program of maintenance and repair.2015, Jeffrey P King, Brad Nevois, “Evolution of the Private Inflow Reduction Process in St. Louis”, in Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation

Questions about rainscaping

What does rainscaping mean?
Rainscaping means the use of water management and landscape design techniques to manage rainwater runoff.
What part of speech is rainscaping?
Rainscaping is a noun.

Words near rainscaping in the dictionary

  1. rains pitchforks
  2. rains stair rods
  3. rainscald
  4. rainscape
  5. rainscapes
  6. rainscaping
  7. rainscreen
  8. rainscreens
  9. Rainsford
  10. rainshade
  11. rainshades

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