malm

Meanings

1. A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.
2. An artificial mixture of chalk, clay, and sand, from which light-brown or yellowish bricks are made.

1. A surname.

1. An epoch from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago, a subdivision of the Jurassic.

Etymology

From Middle English malme (“sand”), from Old English mealm (as in mealmstān (“sandstone”)), from Proto-Germanic *malmaz (“sand, ore”); related to Old Norse malmr (“ore, metal”). From the same Proto-Indo-European root as meal.