[1905–10; hum(us) + -ify + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Expressionism, airway, one-shot, persona, stabilizer-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: classified, integrated, limited, truncated, unsettled
Examples of 'humified' in a sentence
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Peats are an important reserve of humified carbon in terrestrial ecosystems.
Alexandre Christofaro Silva, Luciano Pasqualoto Canellas, Fábio Lopes Olivares, LeonardoBarros Dobbss, Natalia Oliveira Aguiar, Daniele Ângela Rossinol Frade, Carlos EduardoRezende, Lázaro Eustáquio Pereira Peres 2011, 'Root growth of tomato seedlings intensified by humic substances from peat bogs', Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solohttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832011000500015&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Alternatively, extracellular enzymes could bind to humified organic matter to form humoenzymatic complexes.
Laura Ferreras, Silvia Toresani, Beatriz Bonel, Estela Fernández, Silvina Bacigaluppo,Valeria Faggioli, Celina Beltrán 2009, 'Parámetros químicos y biológicos como indicadores de calidad del suelo en diferentesmanejos Chemical and biological parameters as indicators of soil quality under differentmanagements', Ciencia del Suelohttp://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1850-20672009000100011. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Uncultivated peat was more highly humified than cultivated peat because the latter was continuously replenished with new plant matter.
S.F. Sim, M.E. Wasli, C.M.R. Yong, P.S. Howell, C. Jumin, N.A. Safie, B. Samling 2017, 'Assessment of the humification degree of peat soil under sago (Metroxylon sagu) cultivationbased on Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Ultraviolet-Visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopiccharacteristics', Mires and Peathttp://mires-and-peat.net/media/map19/map_19_24.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In these plantations the quality of humified fractions increased in parallel to an increment in the condensed alkaline-soluble humic substances.
Arley Figueiredo Portugal, Ivo Jucksch, Carlos Ernesto G.R. Schaefer, Beno Wendling 2008, 'Determinação de estoques totais de carbono e nitrogênio e suas frações em sistemasagrícolas implantados em argissolo vermelho-amarelo Determination of total organiccarbon and nitrogen stocks and their fractions in and ultisol under different landuses', Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solohttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832008000500030. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)