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How To Use loamy In A Sentence

• Soils are formed primarily from sandy and loamy glacial drift material and generally lack the arability of those in adjacent ecoregions to the south. Ecoregions of Wisconsin (EPA)
• I started with ravioli of mushrooms, mycologically deep and loamy and generous. Times, Sunday Times
• The plant continues in blossom from June till the first frosts wither the leaves; it is far less coarse than the potatoe; the flower, when full blown, is about the size of a half crown, and quite flat; I think it is what you call salver-shaped: it delights in light loamy soil, growing on the upturned roots of fallen trees, where the ground is inclined to be sandy. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
• The large twayblade grows in shady woodlands in loamy soil.
• A broad, low-lying, typically crescent-shaped mound of sandy or loamy matter that is formed by the wind, especially along the windward side of a lake basin.
• If the surface soil have a good proportion of sand, gravel, or organic matter, so as to give it the consistency which is known as "loamy," it will bear any treatment which it may chance to receive in cultivation, or as pasture land; but if it be a decided clay soil, no amount of draining will enable us to work it, or to turn cattle upon it when it is wet with recent rains. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
• A few inches of growing medium such as loamy soil is spread on top. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Dirgham Salahi, who had studied geology, examined the loamy earth around his estate and carefully selected a group of French hybrid varietals to grow on his farm. Dirgham Salahi, Virginia winery owner and Montessori school founder, dies at 81
• The area has non-calcareous, brown loamy clayey soils, developed from calcareous marl.
• Soils in this classification include fine sands, loamy sands and fine sandy loams.