sandy
adjective
of the nature of or consisting of sand.
sandiness
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a word derived from
sandy.
Example Sentences
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They discovered three principal predictors of nematode numbers: soil sandiness, carbon quantity and acidity.
From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2019
They had an initial crunch and then a sandiness that marks the best sablés.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2017
Again he was glad of the soil’s sandiness.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
That hair of hers never could be gray, you know, it's too self-opinionated in its sandiness.
From Vixen, Volume I. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
In truth, a degree of sandiness is characteristic of dry-farm soils.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
