podzolize
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podzolize (third-person singular simple present podzolizes, present participle podzolizing, simple past and past participle podzolized)
- (transitive) To transform into podzol.
- 1970, American Chemical Society, Chemical abstracts: Volume 72:
- Spruce strongly podzolizes the top horizons of carbonate soils.
- (intransitive) To become podzol.
- 1998, Richard T. T. Forman, Pine Barrens: ecosystem and landscape, page 66:
- The compensating factor, of course, is the unusually sandy, quartzose parent material which podzolizes with great ease.
Translations[edit]
to transform something into podzol
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