Inceptisol
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A kind of freely-draining soil that forms quickly through alteration of parent material and has no accumulation of clays, iron oxide, aluminium oxide or organic matter.
Etymology
From Latin inceptum + -i- + -sol
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