brown earth

British  

noun

1. an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England

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Example Sentences

Boyle Reservoir, a black heifer lying on her side in the dusty brown earth heaved a tiny head sticky with amniotic fluid from her birth canal.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2023

But row upon row of them are fresh, marked out by white breezeblocks on the neatly-dug brown earth.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2023

Writing in Bomb magazine in 2016, the critic Stephen Westfall noted that one of Mr. Terna’s paintings depicts what looks like a white snow patch or pond surrounded by light brown earth.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2023

Footage from the area shows residents digging in brown earth with their bare hands, or using hoes, sticks, crowbars and other tools.

From Reuters • Nov. 23, 2022

Before we went over the hill, I dropped it onto the brown earth.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac