soil
noun
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
soilless
-
a word derived from
soil.
Example Sentences
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Environmental factors such as where the plants are grown, whether indoors or outdoors, and in soil or soilless media, may impact the kinds of contaminants and ensuing health risks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2023
If you buy some good sterile soilless mix and repot the tree, washing the roots well first and repot in a new pot that generally succeeds as the larvae require organic matter to survive.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
The debate pitted hydroponic and aquaponic farmers, who grow plants indoors using nutrient-fortified water, against vehement “dirt-firsters,” who claim that the USDA’s certification of soilless farms betrays the very definition of organic farming.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2017
This year, instead of bags, I used four-inch plastic pots filled with half soilless mix, half perlite.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2015
Passed over a very bleak, treeless, barren waste of mountain and moorland, most of it too rocky or soilless for even heather.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
