SOIL EROSION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The washing away of soil by the flow of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("soil erosion" is a kind of...):

eating away; eroding; erosion; wearing; wearing away ((geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soil erosion"):

wash; washout (the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway))

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