topsoil
English
Etymology
top + soil
Noun
topsoil (countable and uncountable, plural topsoils)
- The most fertile soil, easiest to start new plants in.
- Little grew on the farm, after the floods from the hurricane washed away the topsoil.
- 2013, Gore, Al, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 2012039890, OCLC 827202765, page 183:
- Without urgent action, the majority of the Earth’s topsoil could be severely degraded or lost before the end of this century. In China, topsoil is being lost fifty-seven times faster than this natural replacement process; in Europe seventeen times faster.
Translations
the most fertile soil, easiest to start new plants in
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Verb
topsoil (third-person singular simple present topsoils, present participle topsoiling, simple past and past participle topsoiled)
- (transitive) To remove the topsoil from.
Anagrams
- Pilotos, Politos, oil spot, poloist