brown earth

noun

Definition of BROWN EARTH

: any of a group of intrazonal soils developed in temperate humid regions under deciduous forests and characterized by a dark brown mull horizon that grades through lighter colored soil

First Known Use of BROWN EARTH

1932

Rhymes with BROWN EARTH

Ainsworth, childbirth, Cudworth, Edgeworth, Farnsworth, Fort Worth, give birth, Hepworth, on earth, rare earth, rebirth, scorched-earth, self-worth, stillbirth, Tamworth, unearth, Wandsworth, Wentworth, Woolworth, Wordsworth

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