MEANING
Having soil with a balanced mixture of sand, silt, and clay.
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Words that belong together
- loamy soil
- loamy ground
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Roots spread easily through the loamy soil.
Word forms
- Base
- loamy
Usage notes
Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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