Usually means: Soil with balanced sand, silt, clay.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. loam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. loam: Merriam-Webster
  3. loam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. loam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. loam: Collins English Dictionary
  6. loam: Vocabulary.com
  7. Loam, loam: Wordnik
  8. loam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. loam: Wiktionary
  10. loam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. loam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. loam: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. loam: Dictionary.com
  14. loam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Loam (disambiguation), Loam (restaurant), Loam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Loam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. loam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. loam: Rhymezone
  19. Loam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. loam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. loam: FreeDictionary.org
  22. loam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. loam: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loam: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LOAM: Acronym Finder

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. L.O.A.M, loam: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. loam: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
noun:  (metalworking) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
verb:  To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
adjective:  Made of loam; consisting of loam.

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