loam

Meaning

1. A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
2. A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.

clay

clayey soil

sandy soil

regur soil

loam soil

sandy clay

loamy soil

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ləʊm/

From Middle English lome, lame, lam, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.