vadose

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin vadosus.

Adjective

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vadose (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to water beneath the surface of the earth which is located above the level of the permanent groundwater.
    • 2003, B. B. Huckell, C. Vance Haynes, “The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene Western Prehistory”, in American Antiquity, volume 68, number 2, page 357:
      Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.
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Italian

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Adjective

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vadose

  1. feminine plural of vadoso

Anagrams

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Latin

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Adjective

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vadōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of vadōsus