Root zone

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The region of soil in which the roots of plants can effectively extract water and nutrients essential for growth.

    "So, too, repeated watering of this character would only exaggerate the difficulty until the soil of the root zone was too far dried to be further affected in the manner under consideration."

Example

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"So, too, repeated watering of this character would only exaggerate the difficulty until the soil of the root zone was too far dried to be further affected in the manner under consideration."

Etymology

From root + zone.