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loam
noun as in clay
Strongest matches
noun as in dirt
Weak matches
noun as in earth
noun as in ground
noun as in land
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Example Sentences
The best of the dirt, a loam that blends sand and clay, grows beets the size of an ogre’s head.
It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.
In the valleys the land is a deep alluvial loam, easily worked, producing bountiful crops of the finest leaf tobacco.
The planters select a deep black loam or tenacious clay, or even loams mixed with sand.
For Connecticut seed leaf a light moist loam is the proper soil.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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