"laterite" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1948 September and October, W. S. Darby, “The Gold Coast Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 287",
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          "text": "Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite.",
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        "A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads."
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          "aluminium",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
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          "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
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          "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
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          "word": "λατερίτης"
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          "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
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          "word": "lateryt"
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          "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
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          "word": "laterita"
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          "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
      "word": "lateriitti"
    },
    {
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      "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
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      ],
      "word": "latérite"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil",
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      ],
      "word": "λατερίτης"
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      "word": "laterita"
    },
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