dark earth

English

Noun

dark earth

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.

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See also

• black earth, chernozem
• terra preta