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adjective - Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
- The smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
- Down to earth, un-artificed, natural.
- She's was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
- Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
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- (mineral) An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing.
- 1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry
- :It took me from nine to ten days to grind and polish it ready for parabolising and silvering. I did this by hand labour with the aid of , but without a lathe. I finally used rouge instead of in grinding down the glass, until I could see my face in the mirror quite plain.
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- A mineral, esp. a crystal, enclosed within another
- A person of the endomorphic physical type characterised by big bones, round face, large trunk and thighs and a naturally high degree of body fat, especially around the midsection. Endomorphs usually struggle to control their weight although it may simple mean more determination is needed for an endomorph to lose as much weight as a mesomorph.
- (bodybuilding): Theoretical body type with slow metabolism in which weight is gained easily, but fat levels are hard to reduce. Endomorphic bodybuilders tend to be the most massive.
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- any of a class of mixed calcium iron aluminium sorosilicates found in metamporphic rocks
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noun - (mineralogy) a saline evaporite, consisting of magnesium sulphate, also found in fumaroles
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