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inceptisol

inceptisol noun: a kind of freely-draining soil that forms quickly through alteration of parent material and has no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter.

Noun

inceptisol (plural inceptisols)

  1. (soil science) A kind of freely-draining soil that forms quickly through alteration of parent material and has no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter.

Forms of inceptisol

pluralinceptisols

Origin of inceptisol

From Latin inceptum + -i- + -sol

Words formed from inceptisol

Questions about inceptisol

What does inceptisol mean?
Inceptisol means a kind of freely-draining soil that forms quickly through alteration of parent material and has no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter.
What part of speech is inceptisol?
Inceptisol is a noun.
What is the plural of inceptisol?
The plural of inceptisol is inceptisols.

Words near inceptisol in the dictionary

  1. incepting
  2. inception
  3. inceptional
  4. inceptionally
  5. inceptions
  6. inceptisol
  7. inceptisolic
  8. inceptisols
  9. inceptive
  10. inceptively
  11. inceptives

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