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humic

humic adjective: of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food).

Adjective

humic

  1. Of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food).

Noun

humic (plural humics)

  1. A derivative of humic acid.
    • For waters with low concentrations of aquatic humics, the coagulant dose is controlled not by the humics but by the properties of the coagulant (pH and solubility for metal coagulants).1996, William C. Becker, Charles R. O'Melia, Optimizing Ozonation for Turbidity and Organics, page 11
    • A number of recent publications […] claim previous studies have overestimated the importance of the aromatic moieties present in humics […]2005, Irina V. Perminova, Kirk Hatfield, Norbert Hertkorn, Use of Humic Substances to Remediate Polluted Environments, page 16

humic meaning in Bengali

humic in Bengali

হিউমিক অ্যাসিডের একটি জাতক

Forms of humic

pluralhumics

Origin of humic

From humus + -ic.

Words formed from humic

Questions about humic

What does humic mean?
Humic means of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food).
What is humic in Bengali?
Humic in Bengali is হিউমিক অ্যাসিডের একটি জাতক. See Humic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is humic?
Humic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near humic in the dictionary

  1. humhum
  2. humhums
  3. Humian
  4. Humianism
  5. Humians
  6. humic
  7. humic acid
  8. humicolous
  9. humics
  10. humicubation
  11. humicubations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humic (page history and authors); humic (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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