| 单词 | black cotton ground |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack cotton ground ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > dark soil black land1598 black soil1700 hen mould1712 mulatto land1741 mulatto soil1789 black cotton ground1804 mulatto loam1837 mulatto mould1838 black bottom1841 black turf1897 1804 Marquess of Wellesley Let. 12 Sept. in R. G. Burton Wellington’s Campaigns in India (1908) 167 The rain..rendered Monson's marches much more difficult than they would otherwise have been; particularly in that country, which is a black cotton ground. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 205/1 On the whole surface of the table-land [of the Deccan] a black soil prevails, which, from being favourable to the growth of cotton, has been called the black cotton ground, or regur. 1884 Gazetteer Bombay Presidency XXII. iv. 254 In this transition region the soil is generally a reddish alluvial clayslate crossed here and there..by narrow belts of black cotton ground. < as lemmas |
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