English Explanatory Dictionary

andisol

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of soil formed in volcanic ash and containing high proportions of glass and amorphous colloidal materials, including allophane, imogolite, and ferrihydrite.

Word forms

andisol andisols andosol

Etymology

From Japanese 暗 (an, “dark”) + 土 (do, “soil”) and Latin solum (“soil”).

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