Meaning

• A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.

• The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.

• The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.

• Country or territory.

  "Kenyan soil"

• That which soils or pollutes; a stain.

• A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.

• Dung; compost; manure.

  "night soil"