English > dirt: 5 senses > noun 1, substance| Meaning | 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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