moot earth

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moot earth

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moot (“tree stump”) + earth (“soil”)

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West Country, uncountable Soil taken from between the roots of a tree. It is the nature of lime to attract oils, and dissolve vegetable bodies: Hence arise the good effects of lime in the improvement of black moorish land. Moot earth seems to consist of dissolved and half-dissolved vegetable substances, and it is said that lime assimilates the one, and dissolves the ot

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@misc{moot_earth_2026,
  title = {moot earth},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moot%20earth},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}