neigborhood

Updated: May 1, 2025

For a fortnight the tree apparently had been drawing, pumping, sucking I know not what word to use nearly a gallon of fluid daily from the soil in the neigborhood of its roots. This soil had only an ordinary degree of dampness. It was not wet, still less was there any actually fluid water to be seen.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883