Inceptisol

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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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