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pedon

[ ped-n ]

noun

  1. a three-dimensional sample of a soil just large enough to show the characteristics of all its horizons.


pedon

/ pĕdən /

  1. The smallest unit or volume of soil that contains all the soil horizons of a particular soil type. It usually has a surface area of approximately 1 sq m (10.76 sq ft) and extends from the ground surface down to bedrock.
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Example Sentences

Buckeyes coach Chris Holtmann and assistant Ryan Pedon were unavailable due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols, according to Ohio State.

“El Pedón,” as the piece was titled, gets at a long-running focus in the artist’s work: the economic, cultural and other exchanges that occur between the U.S. and Mexico.

I have admired the long-limbed Mr. Tuason in Stephen Petronio’s company and the young Ms. Knouse in presentations by the Cunningham Trust, but Mr. Pedon was new to me.

This represents a Vulgar Lat. *pedo, pedon-, from pes, foot; cf.

Benedictus, a civil officer of some kind in the City of Pedon, guardianship of his children assigned to Theriolus, i.

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