Subsoil

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The layer or bed of earth beneath the topsoil.
  • v. To plow or turn up the subsoil of.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The layer of earth that is below the topsoil.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil.
  • v. To turn up the subsoil of.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The under-soil: the bed or stratum of earth or earthy matter which lies immediately under the surface soil, and which is less finely disintegrated and contains less organic matter than that.
  • In agriculture, to employ the subsoil-plow upon; plow up so as to cut into the subsoil.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock
    • Verb Form
    subsoiled    subsoiling    subsoils   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dirt    soil   
    Cross Reference
    subsoil-plow   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    earth    substratum    undersoil    pane   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clayey    humus    subsurface    aquifer    loamy   
     
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