The subsurface zone above the water table in which some water maybe suspended within the pores of the soil and moving downward toward the water table or laterally toward a discharge point.

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 Dat [..]