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andosol

andosol is the alternative form of andisol.

Meaning of andisol

Noun

andisol (plural andisols)

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

Forms of andosol

pluralandosols

Origin of andosol

From Japanese 暗 (“dark”) + 土 (“soil”) + Latin -sol (“soil”).

Questions about andosol

What is andosol the alternative form of?
Andosol is the alternative form of andisol.

Words near andosol in the dictionary

  1. Andorra la Vella
  2. Andorran
  3. Andorrans
  4. andors
  5. Andos
  6. andosol
  7. andosols
  8. andouille
  9. andouilles
  10. andouillette
  11. andouillettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: andosol (page history and authors); andisol (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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