red soil

noun

: any of a group of zonal soils that develop in a warm temperate moist climate under deciduous or mixed forests and that have thin organic and organic-mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on a red horizon marked by illuviation

called also red podzolic soil

Examples of red soil in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The red soil of Uganda is 7,000 miles away from New Jersey, where Kasumba, No. 6, and fellow catcher Indiana Stanley walk through the tunnel at Trenton Thunder Ballpark. —Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023

Someone sprints to the drone, whose white fuselage stands out against the iron-rich red soil, and covers it with a dark net. —WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023

Redstone Arsenal, named after northern Alabama’s red soil, was established in 1941 as a war chemicals plant with an ordnance facility next door. —Alexandra Heal, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023

Plus, the glow from the red soil was super flattering. —Sue D. Gelber, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1817, in the meaning defined above