0 present participle of irrigate
1 to supply land with water so that crops and plants will grow:
2 to wash an injured part of a person's body, especially a cut, with a flow of liquid
Seventeen users reported irrigating at least twice a week.
We ask whether the process of irrigating lowland farms subsequently reduced pressure on adjacent upland forests.
The sunfish were revived by irrigating the gills with fresh aquarium water.
By irrigating more on hot days and less on cool days, less water can be used to produce higher yields.
Plants were grown under nutritional stresses induced by irrigating subsets of the plants with 100, 50, 25, or 10 % of a standard nutrient solution.
This was the use of 1.5 liter plastic bottles for irrigating tomatoes.
Labour data related to land preparation, manure incorporation, fertilizer application, irrigating, planting, weeding and harvesting was obtained through recall methods during far mer participatory meetings.
This typically involves adding appropriate amounts of water (irrigating) and nutrients (fertilizing), and maximizing substrate-microbe contact (periodic tilling) to further stimulate microbial activity and contaminant degradation.
