| 单词 | prairie soil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie soil prairie soil n. soil of the kind characteristic of the North American prairies; (spec. in Soil Science) a soil that is marked by a deep, dark-coloured surface horizon with a high organic content, is subject to moderate leaching, and occurs under long grass in subhumid temperate regions. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > other soils white earth1448 Chiltern?1530 light land1589 deads1653 rosil1691 moorland1753 prairie soil1817 residuum1828 rendzina1905 podzol1908 solonetz1924 solod1925 solonchak1925 pedalfer1928 pedocal1928 skeletal soil1932 peloid1933 sierozem1934 planosol1938 lithosol1939 regosol1949 andosol1958 Alfisol1960 Aridisol1960 Histosol1960 Spodosol1960 Andisol1978 1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 66 The common field near the town contains nearly 5000 acres, of excellent prairie soil. 1876 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1875 13 288 The prairie soils are usually darker, more crude, coarser and wetter than the woodland. 1928 C. F. Marbut in Proc. & Papers 1st Internat. Congr. Soil Sci. 4 21 The podsolic and lateritic soils of category VI have been subdivided into 8 sub-groups consisting of Tundra, Podsols, Brown Forest soils, Red soils, Yellow soils, Prairie soils (dark colored humid soils), Laterites and Ferruginous Laterites. 1974 E. A. Fitzpatrick Introd. Soil Sci. vii. 116 In the U.S.A. and elsewhere there are prairie soils or brunizems which are similar to chernozems but they have a middle horizon with a clay maximum and are slightly less fertile. 1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes iii. 54 Most of the farms occupied about four hundred feet of river-bank, then arched two miles or so through fields and woodlands to the drier prairie soil. < as lemmas |
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