soil vs alluvial soil

alluvial soil vs soil

soil and alluvial soil both are nouns.

soil is a verb but alluvial soil is not a verb.

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

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

soil: 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 soil 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.

soil (noun)	alluvial soil (noun)
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state	a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
anything regarded as making something unclean
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

soil (verb)	alluvial soil (verb)
make soiled, filthy, or dirty

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