red earth

noun

1. a clayey zonal soil of tropical savanna lands, formed by extensive chemical weathering, coloured by iron compounds, and less strongly leached than laterite

Example Sentences

His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book.

From The Daily Beast

The Turks (especially those of the lower orders) use a kind of clay pipe made of red earth decorated with gilding.

From Project Gutenberg

The quarry runs irregularly in heaps and hollows of chalk and red earth mingled like flesh and blood.

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In time the snake gnawed them free from their foundations and the red-earth pair wandered off together.

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The Onondagas say that the Indians are made from red earth and the white men from sea-foam.

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Little mounds of red earth frequently appeared above the grass, to testify to the labors of miners along this part of the route.

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