gley

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
2. verb To be converted into this kind of soil.
3. verb To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.

Similar words

humic gleysol gleization bleicherde glauberite glauconite geosol glaukosphaerite greensand ultisol

Often followed by

soils soil and horizon features horizons formation podzols layer

Word family

gleyed gleys