Crossword-Solution: TOPSOIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Topsoil | n. | The upper layer of soil; surface soil. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TOPSOIL | anagram | ILPOSTO, OILSPOT, POLOIST, POSTOLI |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with TOPSOIL (5)
Floods in June 1996 caused the loss of much valuable topsoil in the agricultural sector, increasing the need for imports of foodstuffs.
However, if the leaves and forest duff on the floor of a forest or a thick matted sod are tilled into the topsoil, decomposition is greatly accelerated.
The gardener merely rakes back the mulch and exposes a few inches of bare soil, scratches a furrow, and covers the seed with humusy topsoil.
This sad story is told in Carter and Dale's fascinating, but disturbing, book called _Topsoil and Civilization _that I believe should be read by every thoughtful person.
They increase percolation of water into fine-textured soils by making a complex system of interconnected channels or tunnels throughout the topsoil.
Quotes with TOPSOIL (3)
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.
Losing myself interests me. The fertile topsoil interests me, sprawling beneath a light dusting of snow, and the snow that crams the trunks and branches of the pines and elms and redwoods, having frozen up their roots, subdues me to consider life and death. What lurks beneath the ground? Surely dead seeds and frozen worms reside deep below that earth, and surely all those presentiments of life lying dormant, dead or dying, scattered and mute, like memories.
Inhabitants of urban industrial cultures have no point of contact with grain, chickens, cows, or, for that matter, with topsoil. We have no basis of experience to outweigh the arguments of political vegetarians. We have no idea what plants, animals, or soil eat, or how much. Which means we have no idea what we ourselves are eating.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).