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desert soil

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Definition of desert soil

: a soil that develops under sparse shrub vegetation in warm to cool arid climates with a light-colored surface soil usually underlain by calcareous material and a hardpan layer

Examples of desert soil in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

 The problems stem from corrosive desert soil, Schwecke said. — Sammy Roth, latimes.com, "After Aliso Canyon, a gas pipeline exploded — and Californians lost $1 billion," 11 July 2019 Those results were bolstered by others showing that different kinds of bacteria and fungi were present in different layers of desert soil. — The Economist, "Waiting for rainLife clings on in the driest corners of the Earth," 1 Mar. 2018

First Known Use of desert soil

circa 1938, in the meaning defined above

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