residual soil

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsresidual clay

   Broadersoil

Questions about residual soil

What does residual soil mean?

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

What is another word for residual soil?

Close synonyms include residual clay. 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 soil a common word?

residual soil 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.