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.
权威例句
1. Plant the seeds in good loam.
把种子种在好的壤土里.
2. One occupies relatively dry sandy loam soils.
一个则占据较干旱的沙壤土.
3. The soil was brown soil in type and light loam in texture.
供试土类为褐土,质地为轻壤.
4. Most of soil texture ranges from clay loam tO loam clay.