vadose

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vadosus.

Adjective

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.

Related terms

• vadose zone
• vadosity

Italian

Adjective

vadose

1. feminine plural of vadoso

Anagrams

• sedavo

Latin

Adjective

vadōse

1. vocative masculine singular of vadōsus