Oxisoln.
/ˈɒksᵻsɒl/, U.S. /ˈɑksəˌsɑl/ Soil Science.
A soil of an order comprising stable, highly weathered tropical mineral soils with oxic horizons.
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1960 Soil Classif.: 7th Approximation (U.S. Dept. Agric.) xvi. 238/1 The Oxisols include the soils that, in recent years, have been called Latosols, and many, if not most, of those that have been called Ground-Water Laterite soils... All soils that have oxic horizons are included in the order.
1971 Gloss. Soil Sci. Terms (Soil Sci. Soc. Amer.) 26/1 Oxisols, mineral soils that have an oxic horizon within 2 m of the surface or plinthite as a continuous phase within 30 cm of the surface, and that do not have a spodic or argillic horizon above the oxic horizon. (An order in the USDA soil taxonomy.)
1972 H. D. Foth & L. M. Turk Fund. Soil Sci. (ed. 5) x. 262 All soils with oxic horizons belong to the Oxisol order.
1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) vii. 200 ‘Smooth Cayenne’ is chiefly grown on sandy loam soils... Red-brown oxisols are used for pineapple.
1998 New Scientist 14 Nov. (Inside Sci. section) 1/3 In tropical climates, strongly weathered basaltic rocks under rain forest may develop into deep, red, iron oxide-rich oxisols.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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