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LOAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does loam mean?
• LOAM (noun)
The noun LOAM has 1 sense:
1. a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
Familiarity information: LOAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("loam" is a kind of...):
dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loam"):
regur; regur soil (a rich black loam of India)
chernozemic soil (a rich black loam of Russia)
Derivation:
loamy (consisting of or having the character of loam)
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