pedon

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noun The smallest unit or volume of soil that contains all the soil horizons of a particular soil type, usually having a surface area of 1 square meter (10.67 square feet) and extending from the ground surface down to bedrock.

noun In soil science, a three-dimensional body of soil with dimensions large enough to permit the study of individual soil horizons.

[From pedo– + –on or from Greek pedon, soil; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

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For by these, either down to the disturbed spirit, "[Greek: kekoptai kai charassetai pedon];" or around the quiet spirit, and on all the laws of conduct that hold it, as a fair vase its frankincense, are ordained the pure colors, and engraved the just characters, of Æonian life.

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
For by these, either down to the disturbed spirit, "[Greek: kekoptai kai charassetai pedon];" or around the quiet spirit, and on all the laws of conduct that hold it, as a fair vase its frankincense, are ordained the pure colours, and engraved the just Characters, of Æonian life.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
[98] This passage is undoubtedly corrupt, but Dindorf's conjecture [Greek: hele d 'emas phrenas deos; hoplôn ktypos potichrimptetai, dia pedon boa potatai, bremei d'] --, although ingenious, differs too much from the _ductus literarum_, to be considered safe.

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840