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crotovine

crotovine noun: a paleoburrow that has become filled with soil.

Noun

crotovine (countable and uncountable, plural crotovines)

  1. A paleoburrow that has become filled with soil.
    • Traces of the activities of rodents can often be seen in the presence of “crotovines,” dark-coloured patches near the bottom of the humus horizon, formed from old burrows filled up with black earth from above.1934, Technical Communication - Imperial Bureau of Soil Science
    • Unit 1. Pale yellowish brown silty clay penetrated by abundant crotovine.2005 December, Zoltán Horváth, Erika Michéli, Andrea Mindszenty, Judit Berényi-Üveges, “Soft-sediment deformation structures in Late Miocene–Pleistocene sediments on the pediment of the Mátra Hills...

Forms of crotovine

pluralcrotovines

Questions about crotovine

What does crotovine mean?
Crotovine means a paleoburrow that has become filled with soil.
What part of speech is crotovine?
Crotovine is a noun.
What is the plural of crotovine?
The plural of crotovine is crotovines.

Words near crotovine in the dictionary

  1. crotonylations
  2. crotonylene
  3. crotonylenes
  4. crotonylome
  5. crotonylomes
  6. crotovine
  7. crotovines
  8. crotoxin
  9. crotoxins
  10. Crotteau
  11. Crotteaus

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