Meaning

1 senses

  1. (not comparable)Made of loam; consisting of loam.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. The substrate is a type of sandy loam.

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  2. We need to find some good loam if we want to grow enough food to live on.

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  3. The soil should be full of loam, a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic material.

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Origin

From Middle English lom, lome, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto

From Middle English lom, lome, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
loafB1loaferloanB2loanwordloathe
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