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murram

murram noun: laterite.

murram: laterite
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Noun

murram (uncountable)

  1. (Africa, East, India) Laterite.
    • 142. Floor for natives to be paved if for cots, otherwise to be murram or chunam, say 6″ rubble or concrete, plastered.1873, Frank Robertson, Engineering Notes, E. & F. N. Spon, page 313
    • The southern band of schists is also seen on the southern side of the Haladgáon hills in a murram quarry and as a band separating the quartzite and manganese-ore of Gumgáon hill.1909, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Geological Survey of India, page 845

Examples of murram in a sentence

  • Laterite or murram, having a tendency to harden upon exposure, is often satisfactory when traffic is light, but it tends to corrugate or break down with heavier use.1975, William Adams Hance, The Geography of Modern Africa, Second Edition, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 27:
  • They are a familiar sight to most travellers of the murram roads of Uganda.1984, Jonathan Kingdon, East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume IIB: Hares and Rodents, University of Chicago Press...
  • Tracks and roads were at first rough and rutted, and quickly became quagmires in the rainy seasons before being surfaced first with "murram" gravel, later with tarmac.1991, Donald B. Freeman, A City of Farmers: Informal Urban Agriculture in the Open Spaces of Nairobi, Kenya, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN...
  • The soils vary from sandy, sandy clay and clay to shallow young soils of mainly murram or gravel.2006, Robert Tripp, Self-Sufficient Agriculture: Labour and Knowledge in Small-Scale Farming, James & James/Earthscan, →ISBN, page 134:

Forms of murram

alternative formmaram
alternative formmarram
alternative formmooram
alternative formmoorum
alternative formmorram
alternative formmuram
alternative formmurrum

Questions about murram

What does murram mean?
Murram means laterite.
How do you use murram in a sentence?
Laterite or murram, having a tendency to harden upon exposure, is often satisfactory when traffic is light, but it tends to corrugate or break down with heavier use.
What part of speech is murram?
Murram is a noun.

Words near murram in the dictionary

  1. murrain
  2. murraine
  3. murrained
  4. murraines
  5. murrains
  6. murram
  7. Murrami
  8. Murran
  9. murrangatin
  10. Murrans
  11. murras

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