Definition of "irrigable" [irrigable]

• That can be irrigated: irrigable desert. (adjective)

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• "The report assessed the irrigable acreage in the basin and estimated the volume of available water very optimistically, as it turned out."
• "The overarching conundrum of the Colorado River basin is that, although its water is abundant and its irrigable acreage immense, the water is often separated from the nearest arable land by hundreds of miles of wilderness."
• "He summed it all up as “a broad comprehensive scheme of development for all the irrigable land upon the Colorado River ... so that none of the water of this great river which can be put to beneficial use will be allowed to go to waste.”"