oxisol

[ ok-si-sawl, -sol ]

noun
  1. a thick, weathered soil of the humid tropics, largely depleted in the minerals that promote fertility, and characteristic of the Amazon and Congo basins.

Origin of oxisol

1
First recorded in 1955–60; ox- + -i- + -sol

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