loam
/ləʊm/noun
mass noun
1- a fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus肥土。
1.1
- Geology a soil with roughly equal proportions of sand, silt, and clay【地质】（沙、盐、陶含量基本相同的）壤土。
1.2
- a paste of clay and water with sand, chopped straw, etc., used in making bricks and plastering walls（陶, 水, 沙和碎草混合成的）烂砂（造砖、墙用）。
派生词
loaminess
nounloamy
adjective词源
Old English lām 'clay', of West Germanic origin: related to Dutch leem and German Lehm, also to LIME1.