Echard vs Chard - What's the difference?
echard | chard |
(dated) The portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation
* 1905 , ,
* 1951 , John Smith,
Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.
(uncountable) An edible leafy vegetable, , with a slightly bitter taste
As nouns the difference between echard and chard
is that echard is the portion of water in a sample of soil that is not available to vegetation while chard is artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.As a proper noun Chard is
a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, near the Devon border.echard
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Noun
(en noun)The New Phytologist, page 238:
- 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
Distribution of Tree Species in the Sudan in Relation to Rainfall and Soil Texture:
- 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.
