laterite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.

/ˈlatəɹʌɪt/

laterite laterites

From Latin later (“brick”) + -ite.

murram

laterization lateritic

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