Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fuller's_earth

1 sense of fuller's earth

Sense 1
fuller's earth -- (an absorbent soil resembling clay; used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent)
       => soil, dirt -- (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)