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The loose dust, broken rock, and other unconsolidated material covering solid bedrock.
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- lunar regolith
- regolith layer
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The rover’s wheels sank into the loose regolith.
Fine lunar regolith clung to every seam in the suit.
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- Base
- regolith
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural: regoliths for different deposits or kinds. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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