surface soil

1. 1.

   the layer of soil on the surface

   Synonymstopsoil

   Broadersoil

Questions about surface soil

What does surface soil mean?

surface soil means "the layer of soil on the surface".

What is another word for surface soil?

Close synonyms include topsoil. 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 surface soil a common word?

surface 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.