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solodize

solodize verb: to cause to become solodic.

Verb

solodize (third-person singular simple present solodizes, present participle solodizing, simple past and past participle solodized)

  1. (soil science) To cause to become solodic.
    • A light-colored horizon, representing the region of maximum leaching (or reduction) where podzolized or solodized.1936, Charles Edwin Kellogg, Development and Significance of the Great Soil Groups of the United States
    • It may also be that while in the grassland region these soils had begun to solodize and that subsequently they were subjected to the process of podsolization .1945, Charles Frederick Bentley, A Study of Some Solonetz Soil Complexes in Saskatchewan, page 20

Examples of solodize in a sentence

  • The soil does not begin to solodize until most of the exchangeable sodium has been replaced.1953, Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations, University of Wisconsin, page 464:
  • The analyses of aqueous extracts (Table 76) show that the upper horizon is very slightly saline mainly with sodium chloride, which apparently helps to solodize the soils.1975, United States. Dept. of Commerce. Office of Technical Services, OTS. - Issues 70-57103, page 258:
  • The vineyards in both Districts are on various duplex soils: red-brown earths, solodized-solonetz and solodic soils, yellow podzolic soils and soloths.1983, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, volume 23:

Forms of solodize

third-person singular presentsolodizes
present participlesolodizing
past participlesolodized
pastsolodized

Questions about solodize

What does solodize mean?
Solodize means to cause to become solodic.
How do you use solodize in a sentence?
The soil does not begin to solodize until most of the exchangeable sodium has been replaced.
What part of speech is solodize?
Solodize is a verb.
What is the past tense of solodize?
The past tense of solodize is solodized.

Words near solodize in the dictionary

  1. soloable
  2. solochrome
  3. solochromes
  4. solodic
  5. solodization
  6. solodize
  7. solodized
  8. solodizes
  9. solodizing
  10. soloecism
  11. soloecisms

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