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.
例文
1. Plant the seeds in good loam .
良い土壌に種を植える。
2.One occupies relatively dry sandy loam soils.
1つは干ばつの砂土壌を占めている。
3.The soil was brown soil in type and light loam in texture.
供試土類は褐土で、テクスチャは軽土壌である。
4.Most of soil texture ranges from clay loam tO loam clay.