bare earth
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbareandearth
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bare
adjective
uk/beər/us/ber/
without any clothes or not covered ...
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earth
noun
uk/ɜːθ/us/ɝːθ/
the planet third in order of distance from the sun, between Venus and Mars; the world on which ...
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(Definition ofbareandearthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbare earth
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The ground under sitka becomesbareearth.
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It is very striking when you fly over the scorchedbareearthto see the number of forest roads.
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Bareearthgardening helps them home in perfectly on the victim crop.
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Each granite pedestal is hollow, and open to thebareearthinside.
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They may be onbareearthor stubble; and they may have been fed on turnip or beet tops, but now probably nothing more than big-bale straw.
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Human beings have been happily riding horses off the road on grass, sand or on thebareearthfor at least 2,500 years, if not longer, without headgear.
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Each male clears a patch of forest floor tobareearth, and perches on a bare stick.
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Moisture is also retained more efficiently under mulch than on the surface ofbareearth, allowing slower percolation and less leaching of nutrients.
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The placing of the body on the ground is a doublet of birth ritual, when the infant was placed on thebareearth.
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Workers discovered that because the interior of each pedestal was exposed tobareearth, excessive condensation built up inside the hollow statues.
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Often occurring in patterns known as scrape lines, scrapes are areas where a buck has used its front hooves to exposebareearth.
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About 63 percent of the watershed is forested; 21 percent is devoted to fields, pastures,bareearth, and shrubland, and 16 percent is developed or cleared for development.
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The floor had been cleared down tobareearth, and a clean sand subfloor supported a packed clay floor, which rose in steps from west to east.
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As barkdust is less dense than other types of soil or mulch, and doesn't compress a great deal, it is often considerably softer thanbareearth.
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The ashes of the deceased were buried in clay urns in simple trenches in thebareearth, the offerings are modest and consist almost exclusively of fragmented traditional ceramics.
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