cohesive soil

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noun

sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary waterCompare cohesionless soil

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Words nearby cohesive soil

cohesion, cohesionless soil, cohesive, cohesively, cohesiveness, cohesive soil, Cohn, Cohnheim, coho, cohoba, cohobate

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Example sentences from the Web for cohesive soil

The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.
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Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.
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The others are difficult to identify, since they reacted with other oxygen-bearing molecules in the soil.
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Under the new requirements, simply being born on U.S. soil would no longer be enough.
The Progressive Case Against Birthright Citizenship|Keli Goff|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The ground was fertile, with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil.
Ester Elchies, The Estate Built By Whiskey||December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Whatever the species, it is well to imitate the natural conditions as much as possible in the way of soil.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
For instance, the Limestone Polypody is not happy unless there is a certain amount of lime present in the soil.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Broken crocks should be strewn upon the tray, and on to this is heaped peaty soil mixed with sand.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin

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