Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

root zone

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English

Syllables: root -zone
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"Tensiometers placed in the active root zone and near the bottom of the root zone (corresponding to depths of 30 and 60 cm in the figure) provide information that permits control of deep percolation."
"The root zones demonstrate that repeated injections of different batches of kimberlite magma have occurred and that sufficient time was available for each batch to crystallize completely prior to emplacement of younger magmas"
"If the salt below the root zone just stayed there, it wouldn't be a problem."

Etymology

From root + zone.

Inflected Forms

root zones (plural) rootzone (alternative)

Questions

What does root zone mean?: The region of soil in which the roots of plants can effectively extract water and nutrients essential for growth.
Where does root zone come from?: From root + zone.

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