(a.) Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
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Gley
Definition:
(v. i.) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
(adv.) Asquint; askance; obliquely.
Example Sentences:
(1) In three profiles of a semi-gley soil under the floodplain forest, variations were studied in the activities of invertase, amylase, cellobiase, cellulase, proteases, and phosphatases.
(2) In temperate climates, trace element mobilization is greatest when weathering takes place under conditions of impeded pedological drainage, leading to the formation of gleyed soils.
(3) In total 30 nitrogen-fixing, saccharolytic Clostridia and 4 nitrogen-fixing bacilli, all freshly isolated from gleyed soils, were screened for sensitivity to 20 antibiotics.
(4) In the 1890s Gley found that tetany after thyroidectomy was due to removal of the parathyroids.