Loam is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LOAM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cover with loam
• To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
• cover, treat, or fill with loam
NOUN:
• a soil consisting of a natural mixture of clay and sand, with animal and vegetable matter
• a fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus.
• a soil with roughly equal proportions of sand, silt, and clay.
• a paste of clay and water with sand, chopped straw, etc., used in making bricks and plastering walls.
• A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
• A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.
• a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
• fertile soil
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover with loam (a type of soil)

Words related to LOAM

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Words that contain LOAM

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How to use LOAM in a sentence

• It will thrive in very poor soil, but prefers a light rich loam.
• The soil was a sandy loam, thinly timbered with small box-trees and scanty grass.
• As soon as Mark had recovered a little from his first surprise, he sent Bob below to bring up some buckets filled with the earth brought from Loam Rock, or island.
• Loam had been added repeatedly, and they wanted for nothing that could bring forward vegetation.
• The soil should consist of two parts loam and one part leaf-mould, and the situation should be dry and sunny.
• They may be grown from seed sown as soon as it is ripe in sandy loam.
• It thrives best in a mixture of sand, peat, and loam.
• It prefers a soil of sandy loam and peat, and may be increased by seed or by cuttings planted in sand and subjected to heat.
• The stove and greenhouse sorts should be provided with a mixture of sandy peat and loam.
• The greenhouse varieties thrive in a mixture of loam and peat, and cuttings root easily if planted in sand under glass.
• It may be planted in the open early in spring in sandy loam and peat.
• Remove this manure in March, and substitute good loam containing a liberal admixture of decayed manure previously incorporated with the soil.
• If the soil is poor, decayed manure should be added, but the best possible Melons may be grown in a fertile loam without the aid of manures or stimulants of any kind.
• The most effectual way of doing it is to take out the earth to a depth of eighteen inches or two feet, and fill in with decayed manure and loam, chiefly the former.
• The plains are a dark rich loam, the hills a red loam of middling quality, mixed generally with more or less coarse sand and grit, and a great deal of small stone.
• This condition is far more characteristic of clay and clay loam soils, than of those sandy in texture.
• Instinctively the boy threw himself upon the sandy loam.
• The roots should be parted, and the most suitable soil is a rich loam.
• A mixture of loam and peat, with sand, is said, however, to form a good soil in some localities.
• The rich black loam, supposed to be produced by the decomposition of trap, and known by the name of cotton soil, is that prepared for opium.

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