paludification
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On the eastern side of Lago Fontana small bogs are to be found here and there, paludifications of spring water where there is still sufficient moraine bed; most of them, however, are already dried and covered with sand."
- "Each peatland has its own individuality within the broad themes; there may be both lakefill and paludification, or perhaps some combination of both; there may be “final” peatland stages either wooded or treeless —most, it would appear, are combinations, variable in space and time."
- "One of the most significant ecological processes occurring in the black spruce forests of northern Abitibi is the paludification of forest soils (Boudreault et al. 2002; Fenton et al. 2005; Lavoie et al. 2005; Simard et al. 2007)."
- "Research by Backman (1919) proved, however, that only about 5% of the swamps had arisin in that way, and that the paludification of mineral soils was the most common source of swamps."
- "At sites undergoing paludification, litter can accumulate to great thicknesses, as soils become increasingly colder, wetter, and nutrient-poor."
Etymology
From Latin paludem + -ification.