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▪ I. murram|ˈmʌrəm|
Also murrum.
[Native name.]
A hard lateritic material associated with soils with impeded drainage in tropical Africa and locally used as road metal.
1925Dollar Mag. Sept. 120 What first catches the attention..of eyes weary of murrum or black cotton soil..is the soothing greennesss. 1932G. W. Robinson Soils iii. 59 In certain types of tropical soils, with impeded drainage, the deposition of iron oxides may result in the development of highly indurated concretionary material, known in Africa as ‘murram’. 1935Soil Res. IV. 192 Towards the foot of the slopes are murram soils. 1959E. Huxley Flame Trees of Thika i. 7 A plain whose soil was largely murram, a coarse red gravel that baked hard and supported only thin, wiry grass, sad-looking thorn trees and tortured-branched erythrinas. 1961Engineering 2 June 765 A variable thickness of murrum (a tough clay bound gravel). 1963A. Smith Throw out Two Hands vi. 71 The heavens open in their own African fashion to turn the murram roads into sloshy causeways. 1971D. Creed Trial of Lobo Icheka vii. 78 In the town centre the wide murram road was a bedlam of activity.
▪ II. murram, murray
obs. ff. marram, murrey1. |