Specialist on soil and planting
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AGRONOMISTSpecialist on soil and planting.
heelto cover temporarily (the roots and most of the stem of a plant) with soil prior to permanent planting
quincunxesAn arrangement of five objects with four at the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth at its center, used for the five on dice or playing cards, and in planting trees
calcicoleA plant that grows best in calcareous soil, occurring chiefly on chalk and limestone
littersDecomposing but recognizable leaves and other debris forming a layer on top of the soil, esp. in forests
troilitesa mineral that is a variety of pyrrhotite and that is widely but sparsely distributed (as on earth, in meteorites, and in lunar soil samples)
rhizobialany of a genus (Rhizobium) of small heterotrophic soil bacteria capable of forming symbiotic nodules on the roots of leguminous plants and of there becoming bacteroids that fix atmospheric nitrogen
geomantGeomancy was based on tossing handfuls of rocks, pebbles, wooden beads, soil, sand, etc., and then interpreting the patterns or marks formed on the ground by comparing them to sixteen standard charts.