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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of kaolin: as, kaolinic substances.

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Examples

  • The soils are generally nutrient-poor kaolinic soils and sandy podzols on the slopes.

    Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests 2008

  • The rivers of the Park are lined with beaches of white sand and white nutrient-poor kaolinic hydromorphic soils during the dry season and flood over the surrounding forest during the wet season.

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • These characteristics of the country rock, however, are likely to be masked at the outcrop by later weathering, which superposes a kaolinic or clayey alteration.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

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