red earth

noun

1. a clayey zonal soil of tropical savanna lands, formed by extensive chemical weathering, coloured by iron compounds, and less strongly leached than laterite

Example Sentences

He was sitting beside a mound of red earth, carefully pushing a blade of grass into a hole, then withdrawing it and poking it into his mouth.

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They run alongside raised banks of red earth, deep trenches and neat lines of anti-tank dragon's teeth concrete pyramids.

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Edita Mwangi, who harvests coffee cherries on the red earth hillside overlooking the processing plant, confirms this.

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In the background, a hillside can be seen partially collapsed and a large patch of red earth has been exposed.

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To locate the tunnel, forces repeated an Israeli tactic used elsewhere in the strip, overturning mounds of red earth to produce a crater-like hole giving way to a small tunnel entrance.

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