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gleyic

gleyic adjective: resembling or relating to gley soils.

Adjective

gleyic (comparative more gleyic, superlative most gleyic)

  1. Resembling or relating to gley soils.
    • We also sampled rotten wood or organic matter accumulations below trees, and poor sandy soils repeatedly washed by the river during seasonal floods (dystric nitisols with gleyic properties).2015 August 13, Thomas Bourguignon et al., “Influence of Soil Properties on Soldierless Termite Distribution”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI

Forms of gleyic

comparativemore gleyic
superlativemost gleyic

Origin of gleyic

From gley + -ic.

Questions about gleyic

What does gleyic mean?
Gleyic means resembling or relating to gley soils.
What part of speech is gleyic?
Gleyic is an adjective.

Words near gleyic in the dictionary

  1. glew
  2. glew up
  3. glews
  4. gley
  5. gleyed
  6. gleyic
  7. gleying
  8. gleyosol
  9. gleyosols
  10. gleys
  11. gleysoil

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