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chernozem en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)nəˌzɛm/
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Etymology

Borrowed from Russian чернозём (černozjóm, “black soil”). The letter ё (jo) is usually written as е (je) in Russian, more accurately transliterated as "chernozyom"; compare чернозе́мье (černozémʹje), where ё (jo) is changed to е (je).

Meanings

1. (countable, qualifier:soil science, uncountable) A fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.
   • The experiments made by the beet-root growers of the extensive tract of land in Russia, known as the Tschernosem or 'Black soil', whose fertility for corn plants is proverbial, show that this earth, though analytically proved to contain upon the whole, to the depth of twenty inches, 700 to 1000 times the quantity of potash required for a full beet-root crop, is, after three or four years' cultivation, so exhausted, that without manuring it will no longer yield a remunerative crop of beetroot. 1863, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, The Natural Laws of Husbandry:

Forms

Deriveds

chernozemic · Chernozemic

Relateds

dark earth · rubrozem · brunizem · kastanozem · phaeozem · greyzem · sierozem · terra preta

Synonyms

black soil · black earth

Translations (37)

ko 체르노젬 (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · eo ĉernozemo (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · sl černozem (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · cmn 黑土 (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · fr tchernoziom (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ja チェルノゼム (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · be чарназём (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · alt кара тобрак (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · cs černozem (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · vi đất đen (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · de Schwarzerde (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · pt chernozem (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · izh mussanmaa (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · vi secnôziom (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ko 흑토 (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · fi mustamulta (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · de Tschernosem (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ja チェルノジョーム (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ky кара топурак (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · eo ĉernozio (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · cmn 黑鈣土 /黑钙土 (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · fi tšernozem (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · sv svartjord (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ta கரிசல்மண் (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ro cernoziom (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · it černozëm (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · pl czarnoziem (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · uk чорно́зем (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · fr tchernozème (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · es chernozem (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · vi hắc thổ (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · az qaratorpaq (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ru чернозём (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ko 체르노죰 (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ja 黒土 (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · fi mustamultamaannos (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus) · ta கரிசல் (black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus)