"moot earth" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "moot (“tree stump”) + earth (“soil”)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1794, James MacPhail, “Of Manures, Earths &c”, in A Treatise on the Culture of the Cucumber, pages 510–511:",
          "text": "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 other.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Soil taken from between the roots of a tree."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Soil",
          "soil"
        ],
        [
          "root",
          "root"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(West Country) Soil taken from between the roots of a tree."
      ],
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        "West-Country",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "moot earth"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "moot (“tree stump”) + earth (“soil”)",
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      "expansion": "moot earth (uncountable)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1794, James MacPhail, “Of Manures, Earths &c”, in A Treatise on the Culture of the Cucumber, pages 510–511:",
          "text": "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 other.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Soil taken from between the roots of a tree."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Soil",
          "soil"
        ],
        [
          "root",
          "root"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(West Country) Soil taken from between the roots of a tree."
      ],
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        "West-Country",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "moot earth"
}