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UK
/lˈəʊm/
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[ US /ˈɫoʊm/ ]
[ US /ˈɫoʊm/ ]
NOUN
- a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
How To Use loam In A Sentence
- The Wellston series typically occurs on steep slopes with a shallow, acidic A horizon, while the Grantsburg silt loam typically occurs in long, narrow areas bordering or on ridgetops.
- I apprehend the reader will not imagine I have over-rated the prcdudl of this farm, becaufe the rent is fmall: The great ex - pence of the marling fhould be confidercd; and as that manure agrees prodigioufly with light hazelly loams, I am confident fuch crops as I have fiated are not above the truth. truth. The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms. Containing an examination of many subjects of great importance both to the common husbandman, in hiring a farm; and to a gentleman on taking the whole or part of his estate into his own hands. Also, pla
- The presence of loam in potting composts does increase the margin for error, both when watering and feeding. The Sun
- Fill nine small containers, such as flowerpots or tea cups, with presoaked floral loam.
- The freezing and thawing action on clay, silty clay, and silty clay loam soils tilled in the fall or winter to produce stale seedbeds usually have excellent seedbeds for early no-till spring planting.
- Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
- Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth. Apocrypha « BAHAY TALINHAGA
- Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
- You have loam and we have river bed sand and decomposed granite and perhaps silt from the river. Bapteme - French Word-A-Day
- In an hour or less the tree will be in, all loamed and mounded and ready for life and a future longer than mine. The Myth of Summer