| 单词 | buttermilk land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbuttermilk land buttermilk land n. U.S. regional (Indiana and Ohio) swampy land characterized by pale loamy soil. ΚΠ 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 58 They had been sufficiently fortunate as to get a taste of ‘buttermilk land’—‘spouty land’. 1930 Soil Surv. Ohio & Switzerland Counties, Indiana (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 25 Like typical Clermont silt loam, this soil is locally known as slash land, crawfish land, or buttermilk land. In cultivated fields under moist conditions it has a dull dingy-gray color and on drying changes to very light gray. 1975 Soil Surv. Clermont County, Ohio (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 59/1 In places where this soil is almost white when dry, it is called ‘buttermilk’ land. In other places it is called ‘crawdad’ land. < as lemmas |
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