subsoil

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ soil

Noun

subsoil (countable and uncountable, plural subsoils)

  1. The layer of earth that is below the topsoil.

Translations

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
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