subsoil

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ soil

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

subsoil (countable and uncountable, plural subsoils)

1. The layer of earth that is below the topsoil.
   • 1954, Soil survey of Wise County, Virginia, page 28:

     In the few areas underlain by horizontally bedded limestone, the surface soil is dark gray to black and peatlike, and the subsoil gray and marllike.

Translations

layer of earth below topsoil

• Catalan: subsòl (ca) m
• French: sous-sol (fr) m
• German: Unterboden (de) m
• Ingrian: pintamaanalus
• Irish: gaíon m, fo-ithir f
• Italian: sottosuolo (it) m
• Khmer: ដីស្រទាប់ក្រោម (km) (dəyhrɔɔtŏəpkraom)
• Manx: fo-ooir f, ooir f
• Polish: podglebie (pl) n
• Romansch: sutterren m, terren sut m
• Russian: матери́к (ru) m (materík), не́дра (ru) n pl (nédra)
• Scottish Gaelic: fo-ùir f
• Spanish: subsuelo (es) m
• Swedish: alv (sv) c
• Tagalog: kubsulip
• Welsh: isbridd m

Verb

subsoil (third-person singular simple present subsoils, present participle subsoiling, simple past and past participle subsoiled)

1. (transitive) To turn up the subsoil of.

Derived terms

• subsoiler