laterite

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See also: latérite

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Traditional laterite temple in Kerala, India

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From Latin later (“brick”) +‎ -ite.

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laterite (countable and uncountable, plural laterites)

  1. 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.
    • 1948 September and October, W. S. Darby, “The Gold Coast Railway—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 287:
      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!
    • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 38:
      Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite.

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laterite f (plural lateriti)

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