residual clay

1. 1.

   the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved

   Synonymsresidual soil

   Broadersoil

Questions about residual clay

What does residual clay mean?

residual clay means "the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved".

What is another word for residual clay?

Close synonyms include residual 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 residual clay a common word?

residual clay 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.