Home › Words › O › orthentorthentorthent means A kind of shallow or "skeletal" soil, found on recent erosional surfaces or very old landforms completely devoid of weatherable minerals.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, orthent ranks #2,709 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyOrtho- + Clipping of entisolnounA kind of shallow or "skeletal" soil, found on recent erosional surfaces or very old landforms completely devoid of weatherable minerals.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).