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vadose

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va⋅dose

  [vey-dohs]
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–adjective Geology.
found or located above the water table: vadose water; vadose zone.
Origin:
1895–1900; < L vadōsus shallow, equiv. to vad(um) a shoal, ford + -ōsus -ose 1
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va·dose   (vā'dōs')   
adj.  Of, relating to, or being water that is located in the zone of aeration in the earth's crust above the ground water level.

[Latin vadōsus, shallow, from vadum, a shallow, ford.]
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