reddish-brown lateritic soil

reddish-brown lateritic soil
noun
: any of a group of zonal soils developed under humid tropical forest vegetation that have granular dark reddish brown surface soils underlain by reddish friable clay B-horizons and red reticulately mottled lateritic parent material

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