Pedality

Quick meaning: Pedality is a noun meaning (soil science) The physical structure of a soil, especially in the context of its constituent peds.

Meaning

(soil science) The physical structure of a soil, especially in the context of its constituent peds.

More Meanings

1. The anatomical formation of the foot and surrounding region.
2. Something that is associated with the foot, such as the way it is used (for locomotion or measurement) or the articles of clothing worn on it.

Example Sentences

Cloven-footednesse includes pedality.

Changes in pedality can occur in animals due to injury, congenital defects, or behaviour.

There is really no difference between the formation of the lower pedalities of a pure dandy, and those of a pure Ethiopian. In this anatomical fact lies the great difficulty in the way of modern "squirts".

A rusty brown coat, of antique cut, fitted closely to a long ungainly body; a pair of greasy galligaskins, which had once been gray, rand down into the capacious jaws of a long and large pair of rusty boots; these noticeable articles, from their make, must once have cased the nether extremities of a horseman in Rupert's troop, or have defended the pedalities of some old smuggler for many a long year.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pedturbation, paedogenesis, pedes, pedography, paidologist, pedogram.

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