dark earth

noun

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).

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Meanings

noun
  1. soil scienceSoil 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.
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