soilization

English

Etymology

From soil +‎ -ization.

Noun

soilization (uncountable)

1. The process of making something soil.
   • 1854, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, volume 9, Luthur Tucker, page 382:

     My choicest books, articles of bijouterie—the gifts of other days—engravings, scrap books, collections of herbals and algie, lie within reach of little hands, not sealed books or tabooed articles, but unharmed by any particular marks of spoliation and soilization.

   • 2010, Kazuharu Mizuno, editor, Historical change and its problem on the relationship between natural environments and human activities in southern Africa (African study monographs: Supplementary issue; 40)‎^[1], Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, page 62:

     Eitel et al. (2006) suggested that the calcrete formation indicates past soilization associated with the surface of the soil and decreasing precipitations.

   • 2016, Zhijian Yi, Chaohua Zhao, “Desert “Soilization”: An Eco-Mechanical Solution to Desertification”, in Engineering‎^[2], Beijing: Higher Education Press, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 March 2019:

     The proposition of desert “soilization” is based on the realization of sand “soilization,” which presents a promising alternative to the prevailing methods of desert control.

Anagrams

• siloization