Definitions for humuses

humuses hu·mus

Spelling: [hyoo-muh s or, often, yoo-]
IPA: /ˈhyu məs or, often, ˈyu-/

Humuses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in humuses (ehmssuu).

Definitions for humuses

noun

  1. the dark organic material in soils, produced by the decomposition of vegetable or animal matter and essential to the fertility of the earth.

Origin of humuses

1790-1800; Latin: earth, ground; akin to Greek chamaí on the ground, chthṓn earth, Sanskrit kṣam-, Lithuanian žẽmė, Serbo-Croatian zèmlja ground, earth; cf. chameleo

Examples for humuses

Where the layer of humus is deep, the fertility is greatest.

The tree-roots burned with the humus, and down crashed the trees into the flames.

Why not chat over a plate of humus with members of Bereaved Families for Peace and Combatants for Peace?

Most of the crops require tillage, and that is exhaustive of the store of humus.

The more there is of this humus in the soil, the more thriftily plants will grow.

These bodies have received the collective names humus and Geine.

Sometimes, as in the case of the humus masabacha at a certain SoHo eatery, I slip up.

Where there is an abundance of humus in the soil there is likely also to be an abundance of nitrogen.

The mingling of humus and the subsoil is brought about by several means.

This vegetable addition to the soil is generally known as humus.

Word Value for humuses
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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