planosol
Meanings
noun
- A soil with a light-coloured, coarse-textured surface horizon that shows signs of periodic water stagnation and abruptly overlies a dense, slowly permeable subsoil with significantly more clay than the surface horizon.
Word forms
Etymology
From plane + -o- + sol.
Derived words
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