loam

noun
🔊/ləʊm/
🔊/ləʊm/
[uncountable] (specialist)
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  1. good quality soil containing sand, clay and decayed vegetable matter壤土;肥土;沃土
    • A moist loam is ideal for growing currant bushes.湿润的壤土非常适合种植无核小灌木丛。
    • Mix equal parts of clay and loam.混合等份的粘土和壤土。
    Topics Farmingc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryLoam is used before these nouns:
    • soil
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    Word OriginOld English lām ‘clay’, of West Germanic origin: related to Dutch leem and German Lehm, also to lime, the substance.