Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chernozem

/ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)nəˌzɛm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English

Syllables: cher-nozem
IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)nəˌzɛm/

25

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The experiments made by the beet-root growers of the extensive tract of land in Russia, known as the Tschernosem or 'Black soil', whose fertility for corn plants is proverbial, show that this earth, though analytically proved to contain upon the whole, to the depth of twenty inches, 700 to 1000 times the quantity of potash required for a full beet-root crop, is, after three or four years' cultivation, so exhausted, that without manuring it will no longer yield a remunerative crop of beetroot."

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian чернозём (černozjóm, “black soil”). The letter ё (jo) is usually written as е (je) in Russian, more accurately transliterated as "chernozyom"; compare чернозе́мье (černozémʹje), where ё (jo) is changed to е (je).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: чернозём

Usage

Inflected Forms

chernozems (plural) chernosem (alternative) tschernosem (alternative) tchernozem (alternative) tchornozem (alternative) chornozem (alternative)

Derived Forms

chernozemic

Phrases

dark earth terra preta

Frequently Paired Words

brunizem dark earth greyzem kastanozem phaeozem rubrozem sierozem terra preta

Synonyms

black earth black soil

Questions

How do you pronounce chernozem?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)nəˌzɛm/.
What does chernozem mean?: A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.
Where does chernozem come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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