subsoil

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ soil

Noun

subsoil (countable and uncountable, plural subsoils)

1. The layer of earth that is below the topsoil.

Translations

layer of earth below topsoil

• Catalan: subsòl (ca) m
• French: sous-sol (fr) m
• German: Untergrund (de) m
• Irish: gaíon m, fo-ithir f
• Italian: sottosuolo (it) m
• Manx: fo-ooir f, ooir f
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• 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

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