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Silty vs Loamy - What's the difference?

silty | loamy |

As adjectives the difference between silty and loamy

is that silty is having a noticeable amount of silt while loamy is consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.

silty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a noticeable amount of silt.
  • :The silty river needed its channel dredged periodically to remain navigable.

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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.