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cohesive soil

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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Nearby words

  1. coherently,
  2. coherer,
  3. cohesion,
  4. cohesionless soil,
  5. cohesive,
  6. cohn,
  7. cohn, ferdinand,
  8. cohnheim,
  9. coho,
  10. coho salmon
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