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Tending toward scouring (diarrheal illness) in grazing livestock, being high in molybdenum content and neutral to alkaline in pH.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: agriculture and soil science
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Dialectal form of tart, applied by British farmers to soils since before the era of chemical science and the discovery of molybdenum but retroactively defined by molybdenum concentration and pH level.
