English > dirt: 5 senses > noun 1, substanceMeaning | The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock. |
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Synonym | soil |
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Narrower | Indian red | A red soil containing ferric oxide |
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alluvial soil | A fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds |
bog soil | poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation |
bole | A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) |
caliche, hardpan | crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions |
clay | A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired |
clunch | hardened clay |
desert soil, desertic soil | A type of soil that develops in arid climates |
fuller's earth | An absorbent soil resembling clay |
gilgai soil | soil in the melon holes of Australia |
gumbo, gumbo soil | Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water |
humus | partially decomposed organic matter |
indurated clay | hardened clay |
laterite | A red soil produced by rock decay |
loam | A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials |
loess | A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind |
marl | A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite |
mold, mould | Loose soil rich in organic matter |
mud, clay | water soaked soil |
podzol, podzol soil, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil | A soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation |
prairie soil | A type of soil occurring under grasses in temperate climates |
regosol | A type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand |
residual soil, residual clay | The soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved |
sand | A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral |
sedimentary clay | clay soil formed by sedimentary deposits |
silt | mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake |
subsoil, undersoil | The layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock |
till, boulder clay | unstratified soil deposited by a glacier |
topsoil, surface soil | The layer of soil on the surface |
tundra soil | A black mucky soil with a frozen subsoil that is characteristic of Arctic and subarctic regions |
wiesenboden | A dark meadow soil rich in organic material |
Broader | earth, ground | The loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface |
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Spanish | suelo, tierra |
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Catalan | sòl, terra |
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