🔤 Lithosol ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
pathreelee mitti, chataan par bani patli mitti
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ENGLISH
📚noun
lithosol
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈlɪθəˌsɒl/
Phonetic: /lith uh sol/
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DEFINITION
a thin, shallow soil consisting mainly of weathering rock fragments with little organic matter
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Vegetation on the steep mountain slope grows thin because the ground is mostly lithosol.
Farmers avoid planting crops in regions dominated by rocky lithosol.
Prickly shrubs and hardy weeds manage to take root in the dry lithosol.
Erosion rapidly strips away the exposed lithosol from the hillsides.
Geologists sampled the shallow lithosol layer to study rock degradation.
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SYNONYMS
azonal soil rocky soil shallow soil
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ANTONYMS
deep soil humus rich soil
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