English

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," American Antiquity, vol. 68, no. 2 p. 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

Latin

Adjective

vadōse

1. vocative masculine singular of vadōsus