rainfed

English

Etymology

rain + fed

Adjective

rainfed (not comparable)

  1. (of land etc.) Supplied with water by rain (only).
    • 2017, Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...:
      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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