podzol

Russian, под (pod) "under" and зола́ (zolá) "ash".

podzol (plural podzols)

1. The typical soil of coniferous or boreal forests.
   • 2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319:

     During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.

• podzolize
• podzolization

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podzol m (plural podzols)

1. podzol

• “podzol”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.