soil science

English

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Noun

soil science (uncountable)

1. The scientific study of the formation, classification, mapping, and the physical, chemical and biological properties of soil.

Hyponyms

• agrology (one sense)

Translations

scientific study of soil

• Afrikaans: grondkunde (af)
• Belarusian: глебазнаўства n (hljebaznaŭstva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土壤學／土壤学 (zh) (tǔrǎngxué)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: bodemkunde (nl) f
• Finnish: maaperätiede
• French: pédologie (fr) f
• German: Bodenwissenschaft f, Bodenkunde (de) f
• Hungarian: talajtan (hu)
• Japanese: 土壌学
• Polish: gleboznawstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: ciência do solo f
• Russian: почвове́дение (ru) n (počvovédenije)
• Spanish: ciencia del suelo f
• Tagalog: palasulipan
• Ukrainian: ґрунтозна́вство n (gruntoznávstvo)

See also

• edaphology
• pedology
• soil biochemistry
• soil chemistry
• soil conservation
• soil genesis
• soil management
• soil mechanics and engineering
• soil microbiology
• soil mineralogy
• soil physics