Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mollisol

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mol-lisol
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of soil that forms in semiarid to semihumid areas, typically under a grassland cover, with deep, high organic matter and a nutrient-enriched surface soil (or horizon).

Etymology

From Latin mollis (“soft”) and solum (“soil”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: mollis

Inflected Forms

mollisols (plural)

Questions

What does mollisol mean?: A type of soil that forms in semiarid to semihumid areas, typically under a grassland cover, with deep, high organic matter and a nutrient-enriched surface soil (or horizon).
Where does mollisol come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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