Meanings
nounholard (plural holards)
plural holards
- datedThe total water content of a sample of soil
The holard of clays ranges from 20 to 60 per cent during the growing season.
1929, Harvey Stallard, Secondary Succession in the Climax Forest Formations of Northern Minnesota, page 5061 more example
Methods of determining the holard are so numerous and so simple as to need little comment.
1916, Frederic Clements, Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation, page 439
Origin
- Ancient Greekὅλος“whole”
- Englishholard
From Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).
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