subsoil

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Etymology

From sub- +‎ soil.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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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