histic
/ˈhɪstɪk/adjective
1Of or relating to animal or plant tissues. Now rare.
2 Soil Science. Of a soil or soil horizon: containing a high proportion of organic matter, especially incompletely decomposed organic matter such as peat.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences. From ancient Greek ἱστός (woven) web + -ic, in sense 1 after French histique.
- lower fungus
- lower-grade
- lower house
- Lower Hutt
- lower-income
- lowering
- lower-level
- lower mast
- Lower Merion
- lower-middlebrow
- lower middle class
- lowermost
- pointsman
- point something out
- point something up
- point source
- point-sphere
- point spread
- point-spread function
- points rationing
- points system
- points value
- points victory
- points win
- point system