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echards

echards is the plural of echard.

Meaning of echard

Noun

echard (plural echards)

  1. (dated) The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation.
    • The echard of a given habitat is experimentally ascertained by isolating a block of soil by impermeable plates, allowing it to dry slowly and determining its water-content at the time when the plants growing on it are wilting irrecoverably1905, Arthur Tansley, The New Phytologist, page 238

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Proper noun capitalized: Echards

Echards

  1. (plural) plural of Echard

Questions about echards

What is echards the plural of?
Echards is the plural of echard.
What part of speech is echards?
Echards is a proper noun.

Words near echards in the dictionary

  1. echalion
  2. echalions
  3. Echaquan
  4. Echaquans
  5. echard
  6. echards
  7. Echavarria
  8. Echavarrias
  9. echelette
  10. echelettes
  11. echelle

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