moot earth
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Soil taken from between the roots of a tree.
— 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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