pedality

/pəˈdælɪti/

Etymology

ped- (“soil”) + -ality.

pedality means the physical structure of a soil, especially in the context of its constituent peds. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

pedality is pronounced /pəˈdælɪti/.

noun

The physical structure of a soil, especially in the context of its constituent peds.“Following the ideas of the Soil Survey Manual (Soil Survey Staff, 1951), Bullock et al. (1985) recommended to describe the grade of pedality as part of the description of microstructure. Bullock et al. (1985) and FitzPatrick (1984) based for micromorphological descriptions their grading on the only criterion visible in thin sections, namely the degree to which the aggregates are surrounded by void”
The anatomical formation of the foot and surrounding region.“Cloven-footednesse includes pedality.”
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.“I was followed by my noble hostess (womewhat more, be it understood, than a middle-aged lady), who gravely sate down, and, bidding me take off my cravat, like Thomson's Musidora—"...from her leg the inverted worsted drew"— pinned it scientifically round my throat, with the comfortable assurance that it would be "no sort of good" unless applied warm from the foot. The kind lady had hardly left, whe”