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yermic

yermic adjective: characteristic of a desert.

Adjective

yermic (not comparable)

  1. (soil science) Characteristic of a desert.
    • The components of the desert pavement that is often found on top of the yermic horizon are too large for standard thin section studies and thus they are not discussed in this chapter.2010, Georges Stoops, Interpretation of Micromorphological Features of Soils and Regoliths

Origin of yermic

From Spanish yermo (“desert wasteland”) + -ic.

Questions about yermic

What does yermic mean?
Yermic means characteristic of a desert.
What part of speech is yermic?
Yermic is an adjective.

Words near yermic in the dictionary

  1. Yerkes
  2. Yerkes-Dodson law
  3. yerking
  4. Yerkish
  5. yerks
  6. yermic
  7. yermosol
  8. yermosols
  9. yermulke
  10. yermulkes
  11. yern

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