Subsoil Synonyms

sŭbsoil
The layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. loam
  2. dirt
  3. undersoil
  4. gravel

Words Related to Subsoil

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. clay
  2. earth
  3. topsoil
  4. sub-soil
  5. alluvium
  6. clayey
  7. marl
  8. friable
  9. silty
  10. redeposite
  11. colluvium
  12. clay-rich
  13. claystone
  14. backfill
  15. tufa

Subsoil Sentence Examples

  • It rests on a subsoil of clay and marl.

  • As the drainage by cuniculi removed the moisture in the subsoil, so the drainage of the lakes by emissaria, outlet channels at a low level, prevented the permeable strata below the tufa from becoming impregnated with moisture which they would otherwise have derived from the lakes of the Alban Hills.

  • Here the prevailing soils are grey and sandy with a subsoil of loam, but they are less fertile than those of the Lime Sink or Cotton Belts.

  • The subsoil is either of clay, of limestone, or mixed sand and clay, gravel, or of a peculiar kind of pudding stone which exists in a hard and a soft variety.

  • Except on extremely heavy soils or on shallow soils with a subsoil which it is unwise to bring upon the surface, the modern tendency is in favour of the digging plough.

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