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What is the adjective for soils?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb soil which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

soilless
  1. Lacking home soil; dispossessed
  2. Not containing soil
  3. Examples:
      4. “The root tips are mixed with a soilless compost and the mixture is planted with the alpine strawberry cultivar Baron Solemacher, grown from seed.”
      “However, there is little to be gained even in soil and soilless mediums when complete fertilizers with all essential nutrients are present.”
      “Nitrate nitrogen is more readily available to plants growing in soilless media.”
soilsome
  1. Characterised or marked by soil; soiled
soilable
  1. That can be soiled; defilable.
soillike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of soil.
soilborne
  1. Transported by means of soil.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The light yellow spindle shaped spots on the leaves are characteristic of this soilborne virus disease.”
      “Diverse crop species encourage soil microfauna, which can help reduce soilborne plant diseases.”
      “Foliar diseases such as Cercospora leaf spot, curly top, and powdery mildew do occur, but are normally easier to control than soilborne diseases.”
soiled
  1. dirty
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dirty, filthy, smudged, begrimed, cruddy, draggled, foul, grimy, smutty, stained, sullied, tainted, unclean, befouled, bemired, besmirched, dusty, grubby, grungy, mucky, bedraggled, black, blackened, dingy, grotty, muddy, sordid, uncleanly, nasty, ruined, not clean, sooty, polluted, scuzzy, contaminated, squalid, slimy, festy, yucky, unwashed, tarnished, messy, gungy, smeared, manky, spotted, skanky, unhygienic, defiled, unsanitary … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Any heavily soiled sheets from patients with dysentery had to be burned on the beach.”
soiling
  1. present participle of soil
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dirtying, staining, befouling, besmirching, muddying, smudging, begriming, smirching, sullying, blackening, daubing, fouling, griming, smearing, miring, mucking, bemiring, spotting, distaining, gauming, spattering, splashing, splattering, discolouring, discoloring, tarring, disgracing, maculating, messing, mussing, making dirty, messing up, making filthy, mucking up, getting dirty, getting filthy, making mucky, mussing up, tainting, tarnishing, defiling, spoiling, contaminating, polluting, marking, marring, blotting, corrupting, blemishing, bespattering … more
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