subsoil
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Noun[edit]
subsoil (countable and uncountable, plural subsoils)
- 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[edit]
layer of earth below topsoil
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Verb[edit]
subsoil (third-person singular simple present subsoils, present participle subsoiling, simple past and past participle subsoiled)
- (transitive) To turn up the subsoil of.