edaphic
adjective
edaphic is an adjective meaning “Relating to, or determined by, conditions of the soil, especially as it relates to biological systems” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-D-A-P-H-I-C, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does edaphic mean?
adjective
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Relating to, or determined by, conditions of the soil, especially as it relates to biological systems.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is edaphic?
Edaphic appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Edaphic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or relating to soil:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does edaphic come from?
From Ancient Greek ἔδαφος (édaphos, “ground”) + -ic. By surface analysis, edaph- + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).