"echard" meaning in English

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      "word": "chresard"
    }
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        "3": "ἔχω",
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        "5": "to hold"
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      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”)",
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  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "echards",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1905, Arthur Tansley, The New Phytologist, page 238:",
          "text": "The echard of a given habitat is experimentally ascertained by isolating a block of soil by impermeable plates, allowing it to dry slowly and determining its water-content at the time when the plants growing on it are wilting irrecoverably",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, John Smith, Distribution of Tree Species in the Sudan in Relation to Rainfall and Soil Texture:",
          "text": "Grasses sprout on the sands long before the early rains have restored the echard of adjoining clays and given a surplus as chresard which can initiate grass growth.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation."
      ],
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          "water"
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          "soil"
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          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "holard"
        }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛkˌɑː(ɹ)d/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "echard"
}

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    {
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      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "echards",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "holard"
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          "ref": "1905, Arthur Tansley, The New Phytologist, page 238:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, John Smith, Distribution of Tree Species in the Sudan in Relation to Rainfall and Soil Texture:",
          "text": "Grasses sprout on the sands long before the early rains have restored the echard of adjoining clays and given a surplus as chresard which can initiate grass growth.",
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      ],
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          "soil"
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          "vegetation"
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        "(dated) The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛkˌɑː(ɹ)d/"
    }
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  "word": "echard"
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