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词汇 loam
释义 loam
noun[ U ]
uk /ləʊm/ us /loʊm/
high-quality earth that is a mixture of sand, clay, and decaying plant material沃土,肥土
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Soil
alluvial
boulder clay
clay
clayey
cover crop
earthiness
frozen
humus
lime
ooze
peat moss
sandy
sedimentation
silt
soil
solarization
solarize
topsoil
unploughed
worm cast

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loamy

Examples of loam


loam
Of the loam buildings, the wooden poles and the reeds represented the inflammable materials.
The walls of the round and rectangular buildings were simply founded on earth and were all built of loam.
Level 2 is a layer of brown-gray loam that extends across the island in a 30cm-thick layer from 15 to 45 cm below the surface.
The soil texture is silty clay loam with 29, 47, and 24% sand, silt and clay respectively, and illite is the dominant clay mineral.
Lentils are grown on a wide variety of soils from sandy loam to deep peaty soils.
In contrast, for sand and for loam soils, there is far more continuity and similarity in reptile species composition down the rainfall gradient.
Soils in most of the plains are sandy loam or clay loam in texture, with quality varying across the region but not very much.
The structures were built of loam and clustered in streetless neighbourhoods, which were separated from each other by alleys and courtyards.
The tubs were half filled with a mixture of steamsterilized sandy loam (50%), peat (30%) and grit (20%).
There was however a tendency for savanna to change into wet rain forest on sandy loam soils.
The majority (>68%) of dry rain-forest plots were on sandy loam soils, with a small proportion (<15%) on sand or clay.
Physical soil analysis revealed a sandy loam texture with fractions of 78% sand, 10% silt and 12% clay.
In contrast, the low rainfall sand and loam sites retained a more extensive cover of low open woodland.
The ideal soil for cassava is a light, sandy loam soil of medium fertility and with good drainage.
The soil is 1.0 to 1.5 m deep and is a medium-grained sandy loam.
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