dirt vs alluvial soil

alluvial soil vs dirt

dirt and alluvial soil both are nouns.

dirt is an adjective but alluvial soil is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dirt	Yes	Yes	No	No
alluvial soil	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, alluvial soil is a hyponym of dirt; that is, alluvial soil is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dirt:

dirt: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
alluvial soil: a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds

Other hyponyms of dirt include marl, regosol, residual clay, residual soil, surface soil, topsoil, subsoil, undersoil, bog soil, clay, clunch, desert soil, desertic soil, caliche, hardpan, fuller's earth, gilgai soil, gumbo, gumbo soil, humus, indurated clay, Indian red, laterite, loam, loess, mold, mould, clay, mud, bole, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil, prairie soil, sand, sedimentary clay, silt, boulder clay, till, tundra soil, wiesenboden.

dirt (noun)	alluvial soil (noun)
disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people	a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds
anything regarded as making something unclean
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
obscene terms for feces

dirt (adjective)	alluvial soil (adjective)
(of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel

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