Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leached soil formed mainly in cool, humid climates.
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- noun The typical
soil ofconiferous orboreal forests .
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- noun a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Russian : pod, under; see ped- in Indo-European roots + zola, ashes; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]
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Russian, под "under" and зола "ash".
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Examples
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Yellow/reddish podzol soils exist on the plateau, whereas in coastal plains they are litholic and sandy.
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Acidic substances isolated horizons podzol potassium chloride solution
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vendingmachine commented on the word podzol
"Some climate-related variation can be detected within the French brown earth group; in the high-rainfall and somewhat cool conditions of northwestern France, carbonates and other minerals tend to be leached downward, producing a degraded brown earth soil of higher acidity and lesser fertility; locally this may approach the nature of the north European podzol."
January 17, 2021