leaf mould

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   soil composed mainly of decaying leaves

   Synonymsleaf moldleaf soil

   Broadermold

Questions about leaf mould

What does leaf mould mean?

leaf mould means "soil composed mainly of decaying leaves".

What is another word for leaf mould?

Close synonyms include leaf mold, leaf soil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leaf mould a common word?

leaf mould is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.