dark earth

noun — 2 senses

dark earth

noun
1

Soil that is high in organic matter, including charcoal, indicating settlement and urbanization of an area when present as a horizon (i.e., a layer).

2

Any of several brownish earth tone colors; the correspondence of color name to hexidecimal color code is not universally standardized across corporations.

Related terms
black earth, chernozem, terra preta

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