Definitions
a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides
Word origin
From Latin later (“brick”) + -ite.
Used in a sentence
“Although the track is ballasted, it does not prevent clouds of reddish dust from the laterite soil blowing about when the train is in motion; after a journey with the windows open a bath is a necessity!”
“Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite.”
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01“Red tropical soil”8 letters
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