laterisation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Rain forest soils arise rather from the co-existence of the two extreme processes of soil formation in humid regions—podsolisation and laterisation, leaching of sesquioxides and silica respectively,–but laterisation greatly predominates."
- "Laterisation involves the deposition of a hard layer of metallic oxides (called latarite) in the A horizon."