loam
noun/ləʊm/
/ləʊm/
[uncountable] (specialist)- good quality soil containing sand, clay and decayed vegetable matter
- A moist loam is ideal for growing currant bushes.
- Mix equal parts of clay and loam.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLoam is used before these nouns:- soil
Word OriginOld English lām ‘clay’, of West Germanic origin: related to Dutch leem and German Lehm, also to lime, the substance.
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