red soil

noun

: any of a group of zonal soils that develop in a warm temperate moist climate under deciduous or mixed forests and that have thin organic and organic-mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on a red horizon marked by illuviation

called also red podzolic soil

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But the view of the rolling red soil outside gave the game away: The Klein Jan dining room is actually situated on South Africa’s Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, a wilderness populated by lions and rhinos, cheetahs and buffalo. —

Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2024 The red soil of Uganda is 7,000 miles away from New Jersey, where Kasumba, No. 6, and fellow catcher Indiana Stanley walk through the tunnel at Trenton Thunder Ballpark. —

Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023 Someone sprints to the drone, whose white fuselage stands out against the iron-rich red soil, and covers it with a dark net. —

WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023 Redstone Arsenal, named after northern Alabama’s red soil, was established in 1941 as a war chemicals plant with an ordnance facility next door. —

Alexandra Heal, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for red soil