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- Russian · borrowed fromсолонец“salt marsh”
- English todaysolonetz
Borrowed from Russian солонец (solonec, “salt marsh”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
solonetz
Today it means: A type of soil with a so-called "natric horizon" within the upper metre of the soil profile and a subsoil with higher clay content than the upper horizon, the latter having more than 15% exchangeable sodium. Full definition →
Russian солонец