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dark earth

dark earth noun: soil that is high in organic matter, including charcoal, indicating settlement and urbanization of an area when present as a horizon (i.e., a layer).

Noun

dark earth

  1. (soil science) Soil that is high in organic matter, including charcoal, indicating settlement and urbanization of an area when present as a horizon (i.e., a layer).
  2. Any of several brownish earth tone colors; the correspondence of color name to hexidecimal color code is not universally standardized across corporations.

Questions about dark earth

What does dark earth mean?
Dark earth means soil that is high in organic matter, including charcoal, indicating settlement and urbanization of an area when present as a horizon (i.e., a layer).
What part of speech is dark earth?
Dark earth is a noun.

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