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orthents

orthents is the plural of orthent.

Meaning of orthent

Noun

orthent (plural orthents)

  1. A kind of shallow or "skeletal" soil, found on recent erosional surfaces or very old landforms completely devoid of weatherable minerals.

Questions about orthents

What is orthents the plural of?
Orthents is the plural of orthent.

Words near orthents in the dictionary

  1. orthaxial
  2. orthel
  3. orthels
  4. orthenine
  5. orthent
  6. orthents
  7. ortheses
  8. orthesis
  9. Orthez
  10. ortheziid
  11. ortheziids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orthents (page history and authors); orthent (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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