Laterites is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 584 anagrams from letters in laterites (aeeilrstt).
1800-10; Latin later brick, tile + -ite1
The clay called cabook in Ceylon is essentially a variety of laterite.
This grass grows in open somewhat dry loamy and laterite soils in the East Coast districts.
I believe that this laterite is never found, in any part of the Himmalaya chain.
These chemical changes may be the cause of the frequent concretionary structure and veining in the laterite.
laterite, lat′ėr-īt, n. an argillaceous sandstone of a reddish or brick colour found in India, esp.
It contains a large ruined tank with laterite steps, and a number of tombs of wealthy Jain merchants.
On the top of these tables are here and there little conical elevations of laterite, or indurated iron clay.
I have never myself seen any other deposit than this iron clay or laterite above the basaltic plateaux.
laterite may be roughly divided into two kinds, high-level and low-level laterites.
Several of them are elaborate buildings with massive stone roofs, and are surrounded by laterite enclosures.
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