subsoil
subsoil is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil. Subsoil plow, a plow having a share and standard but no moldboard. It follows in the furrow made by an ordinary plow, and loosens the soil to an additional depth without bringing it to the surface. Knight.
- 2.To turn up the subsoil of.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abdomen
- abdominal
- alluvial
- alluvion
- alluvium
- ancon
- ashore
- backbone
- bank
- beach
- belly
- bosom
- breast
- cave
- center
- chalk
- chersonese
- circumscribe
- clay
- cledge
- clod
- clot
- coast
- coastal
- coeliac
- come
- concavity
- contents
- continent
- continental
- crag
- debark
- deep
- delta
- derelict
- domestic
- dry
- earth
- earthy
- endemic
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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