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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a group of soils found in cool to temperate arid regions that is brownish gray at the surface with a lighter layer below and is based in a carbonate or hardpan layer.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Russian serozem : seryĭ, gray + Old Russian zemĭ, earth; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.]

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