Difference between soil and serpentine
Definitions
noun
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- the state of being covered with unclean things
- the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
verb
- make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Examples
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
The B horizon, commonly referred to as subsoil, accumulates material washed out of the A horizon, such as clay, salts, and iron.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms.
Definitions
adjective
- resembling a serpent in form
Examples
It looked like it was made of plaques of imperial jade, not softer serpentine.
You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.
How about apatite, apophyllite, axinite, chlorite, hypersthene, scapolite, serpentine, tantalite, and wolframite?
