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umbric

umbric adjective: essentially mollic but with a lower base saturation.

Adjective

umbric (not comparable)

  1. (soil science) Essentially mollic but with a lower base saturation.

Proper noun capitalized: Umbric

Umbric

  1. A subfamily of the Osco-Umbrian languages encompassing Umbrian, Volscian, and possibly also Marsian.

Origin of umbric

Borrowed from Latin Umbricus (“Umbrian”). By surface analysis, Umbria + -ic.

Questions about umbric

What does umbric mean?
Umbric means essentially mollic but with a lower base saturation.
What part of speech is umbric?
Umbric can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near umbric in the dictionary

  1. umbrettes
  2. Umbri
  3. Umbria
  4. Umbrian
  5. Umbrians
  6. umbric
  7. umbrid
  8. umbridge
  9. umbrids
  10. Umbriel
  11. Umbrielian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umbric (page history and authors); Umbric (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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