Solum meaning

sō'ləm
The upper layers of a soil profile in which topsoil formation occurs.
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The altered soil or material overlying the parent material, often including the A-horizon and the B-horizon.
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The upper layers of a soil profile in which soil formation occurs. The A and B horizons in an ABC soil are part of the solum.
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Within a soil profile, a set of related soil horizons that share the same cycle of pedogenic processes.
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Origin of solum

  • Latin base, ground
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Latin solum (“base, bottom; soil").
    From Wiktionary

Solum Sentence Examples

  • It is from John Mair's Historia Majoris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae, which appeared in 1521 "Circa haec tempora [Ricardi Primi], ut auguror, Robertus Hudus Anglus et Parvus Joannes latrones famatissimi in nemoribus latuerunt, solum opulentorum virorum bona deripientes.

  • Both solea and solum are, of course, from the same root.

  • solum of the line remains intact.

  • Suarez maintains that, though the humanity of Socrates does not differ from that of Plato, yet they do not constitute realiter one and the same humanity; there are as many "formal unities" (in this case, humanities) as there are individuals, and these individuals do not constitute a factual, but only an essential or ideal unity ("ita ut plura individua, quae dicuntur esse ejusdem naturae, non sint unum quid vera entitate quae sit in rebus, sed solum fundamentaliter vel per intellectum").

  • Arabicae et barbarae servitutis medicae jugo, ex professo se Galenicam appellavit et profligato barbarorum exercitu unum totum et solum Galenum, ut optimum artis medicae authorem, in omnibus se sequuturam pollicita est."

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