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tschernosem

tschernosem is the alternative form of chernozem.

Meaning of chernozem

Noun

chernozem (countable and uncountable, plural chernozems)

  1. (soil science) A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.
    • The experiments made by the beet-root growers of the extensive tract of land in Russia, known as the Tschernosem or 'Black soil', whose fertility for corn plants is proverbial, show that this earth, though analytically proved to contain upon the whole, to the depth of twenty inches, 700 to 1000...1863, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, The Natural Laws of Husbandry
    Synonyms:
    black earth, black soil

Forms of tschernosem

pluraltschernosems

Questions about tschernosem

What is tschernosem the alternative form of?
Tschernosem is the alternative form of chernozem.

Words near tschernosem in the dictionary

  1. tschermakite
  2. tschermakites
  3. tschermakitic
  4. tschermigite
  5. tschernichite
  6. tschernosem
  7. tschernosems
  8. Tschetter
  9. Tschetters
  10. Tschida
  11. Tschidas

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