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Clayey vs Loamy - What's the difference?

clayey | loamy |

As adjectives the difference between clayey and loamy

is that clayey is resembling or containing clay while loamy is consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.

clayey

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling or containing clay.
  • * 1812 , Antonio de Alcedo and George Alexander Thompson (translator), The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies , vol. 2, page 13, “Demerara” (J. Carpenter):
    • The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea : thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar-canes.
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if, darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 85:
    • Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate, and thus chemically utterly different in composition from the clayey rocks below and the hard, pebbly ones above.

    Synonyms

    * clayish

    Anagrams

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    loamy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.