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soilization

soilization noun: the process of making something soil.

Noun

soilization

  1. (uncountable) The process of making something soil.
    • My choicest books, articles of bijouterie—the gifts of other days—engravings, scrap books, collections of herbals and algie, lie within reach of little hands, not sealed books or tabooed articles, but unharmed by any particular marks of spoliation and soilization.1854, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, volume 9, Luthur Tucker, page 382
    • Eitel et al. (2006) suggested that the calcrete formation indicates past soilization associated with the surface of the soil and decreasing precipitations.2010, Kazuharu Mizuno, editor, Historical change and its problem on the relationship between natural environments and human activities in southern Africa (African study monographs: Supplementary...

Origin of soilization

From soil + -ization.

Questions about soilization

What does soilization mean?
Soilization means the process of making something soil.
What part of speech is soilization?
Soilization is a noun.

Words near soilization in the dictionary

  1. soiliest
  2. soiliness
  3. soiling
  4. soilings
  5. soilish
  6. soilization
  7. soilless
  8. soillessness
  9. soillike
  10. soilproof
  11. soilpunk

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