vadose

Borrowed from Latin vadosus.

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.

• vadose zone
• vadosity

vadose

1. feminine plural of vadoso

• sedavo

vadōse

1. vocative masculine singular of vadōsus