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The correct spelling is soils.
How to pronounce soils
noun
Say it like: Soy-ls
The correct spelling is soils. A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth. For example: "Kenyan soil"
Usage Examples
“Kenyan soil”
“night soil”
“Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- 2.The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- 3.The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- 4.Country or territory.
- 5.That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
verb
- 1.To make dirty.
- 2.To become dirty or soiled.
- 3.To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- 4.To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- 5.To make invalid, to ruin.
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