Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

andisol

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-dis-ol
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of soil formed in volcanic ash and containing high proportions of glass and amorphous colloidal materials, including allophane, imogolite, and ferrihydrite.

Etymology

From Japanese 暗 (an, “dark”) + 土 (do, “soil”) and Latin solum (“soil”).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 暗, solum

Inflected Forms

andisols (plural) andosol (alternative)

Questions

What does andisol mean?: A kind of soil formed in volcanic ash and containing high proportions of glass and amorphous colloidal materials, including allophane, imogolite, and ferrihydrite.
Where does andisol come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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