Definitions

loamy

[loh-mee] / ˈloʊ mi /

ADJECTIVE

earthlike

Synonyms

WEAK

earthen terrestrial

ADJECTIVE

fertile

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich

WEAK

bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey generative gravid hebetic luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive

WEAK

fruitless infertile sterile useless

ADJECTIVE

proliferous

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey fruitful generative gravid hebetic lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific puberal pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

Example Sentences

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There’s the rich, loamy aroma of the Sequoia forests, which feels like nature itself is breathing.

From Los Angeles Times

Part of the message, written on two, scrunched-up translucent sheets of paper, read: “Bismark Omit leafage buck bank / Paul Ramify loamy event false new event.”

From New York Times

The conditions at Cornell also intentionally disfavored turf-grass weeds, which prefer the rich, loamy soil that our lawns typically inhabit.

From Seattle Times

The worker stabbed the loamy soil with a hoe dag, dropped in a delicate sequoia seedling and tamped the dirt tight around it.

From Los Angeles Times

The house smelled like loamy earth and sharp, pungent herbs.

From Literature

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