thin-soiled

Around 162d Street we came upon a thin-soiled, rocky meadow overlooking the Harlem River.

They had scanned Renaga from space, registering a predominantly agrarian society on a temperate but thin-soiled Class-M planet.

Most of the Atlantic coast of the Aquitani was sandy and thin-soiled; it grew millet, but was unproductive with respect to other products.

They dragged their nets through the water and farmed their thin-soiled acres until time and toil broke them and they laid their bones to rest behind the small wooden church.

In 'thin-soiled' Attica (Thuc. i.2) the olive was unusually important: its deep roots could penetrate the subsoil and get into the rocks, enabling the tree to thrive where other plants could not.