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vadose Definition

va·dose (dōs′)

adjective

designating or of water that clings to solid matter in an unsaturated zone between the earth's surface and the water table

Etymology: < L vadosus, shallow < vadum, shallow place, ford, akin to vadere, to go: for IE base see wade

vadose Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • streamway: A more or less complete dead phreatic streamway is now known to exist, paralleling the present vadose streamway.
  • canyon: For example, you can easily see areas where there are vadose canyons or phreatic tubes.
  • trench: Continuing straight on for 30 meters leads to an 8 meter deep vadose trench in the floor.
  • passage: Ignoring the initial holes in the floor, the route became a familiar winding vadose passage to the head of the pitch.
  • zone: Assessing the influence of agrochemicals on the rate of copper corrosion in the vadose zone of arable land Part 1: Field experiments.
  • development: The cave consists of vadose development along the line of a fault.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Downstream from the junction, the passage becomes less obviously vadose.

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