Definition of Loaminess

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loaminess

loaf around
loaf of bread
loaf sugar
loafed
loafer
loafered
loafers
loafing
loafings
loaflike
loafs
loam
loamed
loamier
loamiest
loaminess (current term)
loaminesses
loaming
loamless
loams
loamy
loan
loan-blend
loan application
loan approval
loan collection
loan office
loan participation
loan shark
loan sharked

Literary usage of Loaminess

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"It is to the tendency of clay to bind the particles of the soil and give it tilth or open texture that the loaminess of soils is due when their chief ..."

2. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1868)
"... a good and deep sandy loam at the lower end, changing to gravelly loam in the middle, and at the highest part a poor sand with very little loaminess. ..."

3. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"... and sand will be useful in bringing it to the proper state of nice loaminess; and if dry and light, the layers of manure may be made a little heavier. ..."

4. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"... and sand will be useful in bringing it to the proper state of nice loaminess; and if dry and light, the layers of manure may be made a little heavier. ..."

5. The Technical Examination of Crude Petroleum, Petroleum Products and Natural by William Allen Hamor, Fred Warde Padgett (1920)
"This excess loaminess may be advantageous in offering the sand a greater ability to resist displacement; but it should not be so loamy or fine as to prevent ..."

6. The Technical Examination of Crude Petroleum, Petroleum Products and Natural by William Allen Hamor, Fred Warde Padgett (1920)
"This excess loaminess may be advantageous in offering the sand a greater ability to resist displacement; but it should not be so loamy or fine as to prevent ..."

7. The New Statistical Account of Scotland by Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy (1845)
"Bone manure has only been tried by two individuals, but not with much success, owing to the loaminess of the soil. On the lighter soils no attempt has ..."

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