gravelly
IPA: grˈævʌɫi
adjective
- Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.
- Of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping.
- (pathology) Caused by or involving gravel (“kidney stones”).
- (obsolete) Full of or covered with sand; sandy.
Advertisement
Examples of "gravelly" in Sentences
- It grows in sandy, gravelly, and rocky soils in woodland.
- The name Graves derives from its intensely gravelly soil.
- The soil is generally a gravelly loam intermixed with clay.
- The soils types are premoninantly sandy and sometimes gravelly.
- The soil is gravelly and sandy, with exceptionally good drainage.
- The surface of the town is uneven with gravelly but productive soil.
- It grows in sandy, gravelly, and rocky soils in chaparral and woodland.
- The soil is alluvial fans of gravelly loam that retains scarce water well.
- The estate vineyards soil is composed of gravelly loam with rocky subsoils.
- The soil in the parish is loam and gravelly and the sub soil mainly blue galt.
Related Links
synonyms for gravellyAdvertisement
Advertisement