Root zone
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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.