HUMATE

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Meaning:

Material that is high in humic acids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("humate" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "humate"):

peat (partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried)

brown coal; lignite; wood coal (intermediate between peat and bituminous coal)

humic shale (shale that is rich in humic acids)