chernozems
chernozems is the plural of chernozem.
Meaning of chernozem
Noun
chernozem (countable and uncountable, plural chernozems)
- A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.
- The experiments made by the beet-root growers of the extensive tract of land in Russia, known as the Tschernosem or 'Black soil', whose fertility for corn plants is proverbial, show that this earth, though analytically proved to contain upon the whole, to the depth of twenty inches, 700 to 1000...1863, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, The Natural Laws of Husbandry
- Synonyms:
- black earth, black soil
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