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black earth

British  

noun

  1. another name for chernozem

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Men dig in flip‑flops through dense black earth, "cow dung", as a young girl sitting on full sacks calls it.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

On a cold January day, he walked with her, retracing paths they had covered many times before: black earth, white patchy snow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

“We already know what black earth is, but we didn’t know how it worked,” he says.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 19, 2023

"It's going to be hard to go back and see a black earth instead of a green earth," Ms August said.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023

There were twenty feet of sand and then black earth again, and even a piece of redwood, that imperishable wood that does not rot.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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