pedon

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n. The smallest unit or volume of soil that contains all the soil horizons of a particular soil type, usually having a surface area of 10.76 square feet or approximately 1 square meter and extending from the ground surface down to bedrock.

n. In soil science, a three-dimensional body of soil with dimensions large enough to permit the study of individual soil horizons.

Greek, soil. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

“For by these, either down to the disturbed spirit, "[Greek: kekoptai kai charassetai pedon];" or around the quiet spirit, and on all the laws of conduct that hold it, as a fair vase its frankincense, are ordained the pure colors, and engraved the just characters, of Æonian life.”

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
“For by these, either down to the disturbed spirit, "[Greek: kekoptai kai charassetai pedon];" or around the quiet spirit, and on all the laws of conduct that hold it, as a fair vase its frankincense, are ordained the pure colours, and engraved the just Characters, of Æonian life.”

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
“[98] This passage is undoubtedly corrupt, but Dindorf's conjecture [Greek: hele d 'emas phrenas deos; hoplôn ktypos potichrimptetai, dia pedon boa potatai, bremei d'] --, although ingenious, differs too much from the _ductus literarum_, to be considered safe.”

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes