moot earth

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Soil taken from between the roots of a tree. West-Country,uncountable
    — It is the nature of lime to attract oils, and dissolve vegetable bodies: Hence arise the good effects of lime in the improvement of black moorish land. Moot earth seems to consist of dissolved and half-dissolved vegetable substances, and it is said that lime assimilates the one, and dissolves the other.

词源

moot (“tree stump”) + earth (“soil”)
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