Illustration: At a small rented vegetable plot, a gardener kneels beside a freshly opened planting hole and crumbles a moist handful of earth between her fingers. Fine roots, tiny leaf fragments, and an earthworm are visible in the loose material. A seedling waits with its root ball exposed beside the hole.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

土ど壌じょう

dojou

soil

Example sentences

  1. 雨あめで土壌どじょうが流ながされてしまった。

    The rain washed away the soil.

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  2. 土壌どじょうが悪わるいと木きは育そだてられない。

    You can’t get a tree to grow on bad soil.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 肥沃ひよくな土壌どじょうは豊ゆたかな作物さくもつを産さんする。

    Rich soil yields good crops.

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Kanji in 土壌

  • 土soil; earthOnド・トKunつち
  • 壌lot; earthOnジョウKunつち

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