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malmy en · ADJ

Etymology

From malm + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of malm.
   • The tough malmy clay at the bottom of the hill comes very nearly down to the right side of the road here; […] 1836, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities, page xii:
   • It becomes what is here called a clay soil; in other counties, a malmy one. 1809, Arthur Young, View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire, page 9:

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