loam
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That’s ancient history to most of us, making it fertile loam for speculative interpretation.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
At first, settling into the moist loam, the plant is an innocent sproutling, soft and gentle, harmless, edible to browsing Herefords.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 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
The threads push through the cell wall and grow out of the cell, like grass rising from seeded loam.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
The red loams of South Africa, where not too sandy, make excellent pisé.
From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Williams-Ellis, Clough
It is most common in sandy or gravelly loams, and is absent from the hard clay soils.
From The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 by Wood, Norman
The lands most sought after have been scrub, deep alluvial flats, and black and chocolate loams; and, until recently, it was on land of this kind that most of the wheat and barley was grown.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
The soils of the N. are clays, sometimes mixed with loam; those of the central part are mainly loams; while those of the S. are sands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Try to find the proportion of vegetable matter in each of the following: loams from various sources, sand, clay, gravel.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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