Meanings of friable soil in English

If you burn down a forest, you are left with a soft, friable soil seasoned with fertilising ash.

What traveller but has noticed the magical effect of rain upon the deep friable soil, formed by the denuded limestone rock.

The land must also be perfectly drained, not only to remove superfluous moisture, but to provide a deep and friable soil.

All about him where he sat, the grey rock pushed through a thin friable soil like the bones of an ill-buried skeleton.

Most of them demand very high levels of available nutrients as well as soft, friable soil containing reasonable levels of organic matter.

The object of draining is to impart to such soils the mellowness and dark color of self drained, rich and friable soil.

The subsequent effect was the doubling, or more probably trebling the value of the land, which has now become a nice friable soil.

Wullie sat down and watched her, smiling a little and stroking his beard as she dug with her hands in the friable soil.

By this course the furrows are partially filled with loose, friable soil and manure, and they average four or five inches in depth.

The ring of rocks is flat on the surface, which is composed of friable soil, and sustains a luxuriant vegetation, chiefly of cocoa-nut palms.

He went on, looking for a spring, sometimes walking on firm ground, sometimes sinking to the ankle in a friable soil like black sand.

She knelt among them, thrusting her hands between their rustling stalks, jerking them up and casting them away, the friable soil spattering from their roots.

Their roots run somewhat shallow, and hence sandy or friable soils are not desirable.

"Loam: a rich, friable soil," says Webster.