black earth
Noun
Meaning
black earth (uncountable)
chernozem
Synonyms
Examples
Eyes forward! Sing a paean to the light That God gives us to net the distant stars In eyes that once were blinded with black earth.
.. it is really beautiful here with that freezing weather. o you should see now the distance, and the fields with their black earth and flat shadows it would strike you, how lovely the sun is shining in the Betuwe.. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
From the black earth there grows the finest grain.
It was Reuchlin who suggested Philipp change his surname from "Schwartzerdt" (literally "black earth"), into the Greek equivalent "Melanchthon" (Μελάγχθων), a custom which was usual among humanists of that time.
Untitled (Black Earth Series), 1978.
With Margaret Weis, Perrin is the author of Knights of the Black Earth, science fiction novels set in the Star of the Guardians, a War of Chaos series novel.