Humus is valid Scrabble Word

Is humus a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is humus valid Words with Friends?
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5 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for HUMUS in dictionary:

Words related to HUMUS

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Words that contain HUMUS

humusy14 humuses12 humusier13 humusiest14

How to use HUMUS in a sentence

This prevents the growing of cover crops, and the sensitive soil, naked, a mere surface dust-mulch, has its humus burned out of it by the sun.
The cocoa will grow almost in the sea and in any soil, but the breadfruit demands humus and a slight attention.
Humus or the organic matter in the soil is composed of litter, leaves and animal ingredients that have decayed under the influence of bacteria.
In the grove, you can demonstrate the decomposition of the fallen leaves, the formation of humus and its value to the tree.
Then fill them nearly full respectively, of dry, sifted, coarse sand, clay, humus soil, and garden soil.
The clay and humus soils carry crops through dry weather better because of their power to hold moisture and to absorb or soak up moisture from below.
It will be seen that of the dry soils the humus is the warmest.
The sand, clay and humus of the soil are made up of a great variety of substances.
Hence any method or system of cropping which does not occasionally return to the soil a new supply of humus tends to weaken the powers of the soil toward water.
The main object of turning these crops under is to furnish the soil with humus.

THE SOIL Soils that are poor in humus are generally in need of nitrogen.
Humus, on account of its color, influences the heat absorbing powers of soils.
Therefore, cotton is a humus wasting crop, and the continuous cultivation of this crop tends to exhaust the supply of organic matter in the soil.
One was an Indian occupation site beneath a layer of early 17th-century humus, which, in turn, was covered by the earthen rampart of a Confederate fort of 1861.
It is due also to the presence on the ground of decaying leaves and twigs, or humus.
A soil of volcanic origin is covered with a rich humus of decaying vegetation, and this, with a soft humid atmosphere, makes an ideal home for cacao.
Ordinarily black loam soils, sandy loam soils, sandy soils, humus soils and the volcanic ash soils of the West are made sufficiently fine without great labor.
Since, through the medium of its roots, it stores the ground with humus, such crops should come after it as feed generously on humus, as, for instance, corn and potatoes.
By growing it as a rotation crop in these valleys it may be made to furnish the soil indefinitely with supplies of nitrogen and humus.
The influences which promote it are the presence of humus, liberal cultivation, and sometimes weather influences, as rain and frost.
Next in adaptation, probably, come slough soils, even though covered with humus to a considerable depth, providing that clay lies under the humus.
When soils are low in the content of humus, before a good crop of clover can be grown, it may be necessary to supply humus.
Farmyard manure supplies both humus and fertility, but in its absence, a crop of rye buried in the soil will insure a stand of clover.
Its value in putting humus into the same may prove equally high.

Similar words containing HUMU without suffix s

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