oligocratic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to oligocracy.
noun
The third and penultimate stage of interglacial forest development (Late-Temperate), characterized by shade-tolerant species that tolerate leaching of the soil.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Significantly, his pollen deposits reveal the conditions both in the oligocratic and the telocratic ."
- "During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths."
- "Carpinus (hornbeam) behaved much more strongly as an oligocratic species than before; its pollen frequency not rising until quite late in the stage."
- "Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more oligocratic (comparative)
most oligocratic (superlative)