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

In the background, a hillside can be seen partially collapsed and a large patch of red earth has been exposed.

From BBC

To locate the tunnel, forces repeated an Israeli tactic used elsewhere in the strip, overturning mounds of red earth to produce a crater-like hole giving way to a small tunnel entrance.

From Seattle Times

From behind me, over the din of the propeller, Deborah Fleming, a community historian and my host on Tinian, beckoned me to look left: In the middle of jungle, tractors and bright red earth emerged violently from Tinian’s emerald green.

From New York Times

But after the first, the others were easier to pick out, gleaming dirty white against the red earth and run through with a honeycomb texture.

From New York Times

He would bring home boxes and boxes of red earth, and he had a screen that he made, so he would take it out in the back yard and sift it.

From New York Times