gumbo soil

1. 1.

   any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water

   Synonymsgumbo

   Broadersoil

Questions about gumbo soil

What does gumbo soil mean?

gumbo soil means "any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water".

What is another word for gumbo soil?

Close synonyms include gumbo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gumbo soil a common word?

gumbo soil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.