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Murray vs Laterite - What's the difference?

murray | laterite |

As a noun laterite is

a red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.

murray

English

(wikipedia Murray)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A river in southeastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean.
  • Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and elsewhere.
  • * :Scene 1:
  • Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son / To beaten Douglas, and the Earls of Athol, / Of Murray , Angus, and Menteith.
  • , transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , The End of the Pier , page 151:
  • Murray' was the sort of name he might have expected his father to pick. '''Murray''' : not a family name, not a friend's name, not some old blowhard up in New Hampshire (his father's home state) who'd sat around in the general store playing checkers and sucking his teeth. ' Murray was a name you couldn't do anything with. Murr — what the hell kind of nickname was that? The kids in second and third grade had certainly seen the name's possibilities. With the appropriate swishes and vocal flutings, they called him "Mary".

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    laterite

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 38:
  • Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite .

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    * murram

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