"vadose" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 60:",
          "text": "The seep lay high up among the ledges, vadose water dripping down the slick black rock and monkeyflower and deathcamas hanging in a small perilous garden. The water that reached the canyon floor was no more than a trickle and they leaned by turns with pursed lips to the stone like devouts at a shrine.",
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          "text": "Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.",
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        "Of or pertaining to water beneath the surface of the earth which is located above the level of the permanent groundwater."
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        {
          "word": "vadose zone"
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