loam
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“You could smell the heavy loam in the deep cool woods—the Yazoo and Big Black rivers were running along,” she tells Lyell after an autumn drive through rural Mississippi in 1935.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The result, if we want to get really geeky, is a mix of clay, pure sand and sandy loam.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
It’s a sandy loam mixed with lightweight volcanic aggregate to provide the volume and moisture needed to support plant life while reducing the weight on the structure and allowing for easy drainage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2023
An odor of loam and dead leaves hung in the corridor.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
On clays, loams or rich soils, the vines make a rank growth, and the fruits are few, late and of poor quality.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
The third class of soils are free sandy loams, either scrub or forest.
From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
The soil is good, however, despite the fact that each dry season the fires destroy the grasses and the loams which are necessary for their nourishment.
From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
On light, sandy soils it will be found wise to turn the whole crop under with the plow, while on heavy loams this plan is of doubtful benefit.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
The uppermost stratum of these pits or mines is a rich fertile yellow loam, exactly resembling our diluvial loams.
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