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名詞

topsoil (countable and uncountable, plural topsoils)

1. (agriculture, horticulture) The upper layer of soil, typically most fertile and in which it is the easiest to start new plants.

   Synonym: (East Anglia, obsolete) callow

   Little grew on the farm, after the floods from the hurricane washed away the topsoil.

   • 2013, Al Gore, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 183:

     Without urgent action, the majority of the Earth’s topsoil could be severely degraded or lost before the end of this century. In China, topsoil is being lost fifty-seven times faster than this natural replacement process; in Europe seventeen times faster.

参考

• garden soil

動詞

topsoil (third-person singular simple present topsoils, present participle topsoiling, simple past and past participle topsoiled)

1. (transitive) To remove the topsoil from.

アナグラム

• Pilotos, Politos, oil spot, poloist