eluviatev.
/iːˈljuːvɪeɪt/ Soil Science.
To undergo eluviation. Usually in past participle or as eˈluviated adj.
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1926 A. G. Tansley & T. F. Chipp Aims & Methods Study Vegetation vii. 116 With lapse of time not only are calcium carbonate and other soluble salts leached from the surface soil..but the finer insoluble particles tend also to be mechanically carried down, so that the coarser particles alone remain in the surface layers, which are then said to be ‘eluviated’ as well as ‘leached’.
1963 S. R. Eyre Vegetation & Soils ii. 36 In most soils which are subject to leaching, it is possible to distinguish two quite distinct sets of horizons... The upper set are referred to as ‘eluviated horizons’.
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