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humuses

noun , plural of humus

Synonyms and Antonyms of humuses

a brown or black material in soil that is formed when plants and animals decay

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of humuses

loams, topsoils

clods, dirt, earth, ground, molds

blacklands, clays, gaults [chiefly British], gleys, gucks (or gooks), gumbos, kaolins, muck, muds

dust, gravels, sands

alluviums (or alluvia), colluvia (or colluviums), detritus, loesses, marls, sediments, shingles, silts

subsoils, substrata

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