Definitions for topsoil

topsoil top·soil

Spelling: [top-soil]
IPA: /ˈtɒpˌsɔɪl/

Topsoil is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in topsoil (iloopst).

Definitions for topsoil

noun

  1. the fertile, upper part of the soil.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cover (land) with topsoil.

Origin of topsoil

First recorded in 1860-65; top1 + soil1

Examples for topsoil

Place the topsoil on one side of the hole; on the other the poorer subsoil.

Now below the topsoil is a lighter coloured, less fertile, more rocky layer, the subsoil.

Bless the red-skins who bred maize, the great preserver of life and damn them for breeding maize the great destroyer of topsoil.

The topsoil and the humus may be a little mixed, but we are not going to sort them out by hand.

We start out in about a foot of topsoil, then some hard rock and then more hard rock.

The prairie vole makes a tortuous network of paths through the grass and honeycombs the topsoil with its tunnels.

If the topsoil is very poor, get some good, rich, black soil.

In Brazil the best soil is known as terra roxa, a topsoil of red clay three or four feet thick with a gravel subsoil.

The Indian celt no doubt fell from the topsoil while the trench in which the wall was built was being excavated.

Word Value for topsoil
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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