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soil: top layer of the surface of the earth composed of finely divided disintegrated rock with an ad-mixture of organic remains
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

soil-cement: cement treated base
Category: Building industry

soil-saving: a dam,usually small in size,constructed to impound or retard temporarily surface runoff and bring about deposition of a substantial portion of the soil being carried away by storm-water runoff
Category: Building industry

soil-saving: an earth dike constructed on the lower end of an irrigated field,usually with an adjustable outlet,built for the purpose of holding sediment on the field
Category: Building industry

soilless: The term 'soilless culture' is covering all methods and systems of growing plants without soil, like water culture, gravel culture, aeroponics etc. Another word for soilless culture is hydroponics or hydroculture. [VE1]
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

subsoil: part of a soil between the layer normally used in tillage and the depth to which most plant roots grow
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

subsoil-water: system of irrigation in which water supplies are obtained from the subsurface water through shallow wells(water being lifted by some devices),tubewells,and kanats(in Iran and a few other countries)
Category: Building industry

topsoil: a) a loose term for the uppermost or cultivated layer of soil b) a specified depth of soil from the natural surface; c) the A horizon, often of relatively dark colour
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

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