soil erosion

1. 1.

   the washing away of soil by the flow of water

   Broadererosion

   Narrowerwashout

Questions about soil erosion

What does soil erosion mean?

soil erosion means "the washing away of soil by the flow of water".

Is soil erosion a common word?

soil erosion 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.