Old English lam "clay, mud, mire, earth," from Proto-Germanic *laimaz (cognates: Old Saxon lemo, Dutch leem, German Lehm "loam"), from PIE root *(s)lei- "slimy" (see slime (n.)). As a type of highly fertile clayey soil, it is attested from 1660s. As a verb from c. 1600.
雙語例句
1. Plant the seeds in good loam.
把種子種在好的壤土里.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. One occupies relatively dry sandy loam soils.
一個則占據較干旱的沙壤土.
來自辭典例句
3. The soil was brown soil in type and light loam in texture.
供試土類為褐土,質地為輕壤.
來自互聯網
4. Most of soil texture ranges from clay loam tO loam clay.