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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Words nearby cohesive soil

coherent light, coherer, cohesion, cohesionless soil, cohesive, cohesive soil, cohn, cohnheim, coho, coho salmon, cohoba
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