chernozem

Englisch

Chernozem or chernozem-like black earth in New York.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian чернозём (černozjóm), "black soil", letter "ё (jo)" is usually written as "е (je)" in Russian, more accurately transliterated as "chernozyom", also compare Чернозе́мье (Černozémʹje) where "ё (jo)" is changed to "е (je)".

Nomen

chernozem (countable and uncountable, plural chernozems)

1. A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.

Synonyms

• black earth

Derived terms

• chernozemic

Translations

black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus

• Belarusian: чарназём m (čarnazjóm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑土 (zh) (hēitǔ), 黑鈣土／黑钙土 (hēigàitǔ), 黑钙土 (zh) (hēigàitǔ)

• Finnish: tšernozem, mustamulta (fi)
• French: tchernoziom (fr) m, tchernozème m
• German: Schwarzerde f, Tschernosem n
• Italian: černozëm m
• Japanese: 黒土 (こくど, kokudo)
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• Korean: 흑토 (ko) (heukto)
• Polish: czarnoziemy m pl
• Portuguese: chernozem m
• Russian: чернозём (ru) m (černozjóm)
• Slovene: černozem m
• Spanish: chernozem m
• Ukrainian: чернозем m (černozém)
• Vietnamese: đất đen, hắc thổ, secnôziom

See also

• greyzem
• kastanozem
• phaeozem
• dark earth
• terra preta

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Portuguese

Nomen

chernozem m (plural chernozens)

1. chernozem (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus)