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Definition of Chernozem
1. Noun. A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chernozem
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chernozem
Literary usage of Chernozem
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paraguay: The Land and the People, Natural Wealth and Commercial Capabilities by Emmanuel de Bourgade La Dardye (1892)
"... character of soil—Sandy soil—The red earth of Paraguay —Humus—Burmeister and
Napp—Soil of the Argentine Pampas and the Russian chernozem—Black earth. ..."
2. The Small Grains by Mark Alfred Carleton (1920)
"Conditions in the chernozem and Great Plains. — The following table, taken from
another publication ..."
3. A History of Russian Forestry and Its Leaders by Viktor Konstantinovich Tepli︠a︡kov (1998)
"He received his first direct experience with the chernozem when he explored its
northern border in the Tula province in 1877. In 1879, he published a major ..."
4. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The adsorption of Ca in the different layers of chernozem soil depends on the
content ... chernozem, on the other hand, on account of its complex formation, ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1892)
"sume that the region of the chernozem, from the earliest times, since the end of
ttie Tertiary, was a steppe covered by a characteristic steppe vegetation ..."
6. Parallelism of the Soils Developed on the Gray Drifts of Minnesota by Clayton Ord Rost (1918)
"This leaves the three types studied to be assigned to either of, the two remaining
classes, or partly to each, viz., Class III (chernozem or P.lack Prairie ..."
7. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1901)
"The macaroni wheat districts of Russia lie in the well-known chernozem or ...
The most thorough investigations have been given to the chernozem soils by ..."
8. Europe by George Goudie Chisholm (1899)
"... where loss is absent, there is an enormous area in the south covered by a rich
soil known as chernozem, or "Mack earth," and a similar explanation would ..."