Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dark earth

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

Syllables
dark- earth
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

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).

noun

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

Phrases

black earth terra preta

Frequently Paired Words

black earth chernozem terra preta

Questions

What does dark earth mean?
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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