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mollic

mollic adjective: dark (having a color value and chroma of 3 or less when moist), with minimum organic carbon content, and high concentration of calcium carbonate.

Adjective

mollic (not comparable)

  1. (soil science) Dark (having a color value and chroma of 3 or less when moist), with minimum organic carbon content, and high concentration of calcium carbonate.
    • A histic epipedon consisting of mineral soil material can also be part of a mollic or umbric epipedon.2010, Keys to Soil Taxonomy, →ISBN, page 197
    • Beside the need for stronger criteria for the mollic horizons an “intermediate” horizon between the mollic and the ochric is proposed, for better differentiation between agricultural soils and to provide useful information for regional and global carbon calculations.2014, Alfred E. Hartemink, Kevin McSweeney, Soil Carbon, →ISBN, page 41

mollic meaning in Tamil

mollic in Tamil

மென்மண்

Questions about mollic

What does mollic mean?
Mollic means dark (having a color value and chroma of 3 or less when moist), with minimum organic carbon content, and high concentration of calcium carbonate.
What is mollic in Tamil?
Mollic in Tamil is மென்மண். See Mollic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mollic?
Mollic is an adjective.

Words near mollic in the dictionary

  1. Mollet
  2. molleton
  3. molletons
  4. Mollets
  5. Mollett
  6. mollic
  7. Mollica
  8. Mollicas
  9. Mollick
  10. mollicute
  11. mollicutes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mollic (page history and authors); mollic (Tamil 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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