Definition of moisture stress in English:
moisture stress
noun
Botany1(A quantitative measure of) the overall pressure at which moisture is held in soil; the force that must be exerted by plant tissue to extract water from the soil (now rare).
2Physiological stress experienced by a plant as a result of a lack of available moisture or a low water potential in the soil (also called water stress).
Origin
1940s.
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