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podsol

podsol is the alternative form of podzol.

Meaning of podzol

Noun

podzol (plural podzols)

  1. The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests.
    • During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319

Forms of podsol

pluralpodsols

Words formed from podsol

Questions about podsol

What is podsol the alternative form of?
Podsol is the alternative form of podzol.

Words near podsol in the dictionary

  1. podslurping
  2. Podsnap
  3. Podsnappery
  4. Podsnappish
  5. Podsnaps
  6. podsol
  7. podsolic
  8. podsolics
  9. podsolization
  10. podsolizations
  11. podsolize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: podsol (page history and authors); podzol (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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