Associations to the word «Laterite»

Wiktionary

LATERITE, 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.

Dictionary definition

LATERITE, noun. A red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats