lut- +

(Latin: mud; clay; dirt; filth; mire)


enlute
To coat with clay; to lute.
Latin lut- forms
1. luteus, lutea, lutum: of mud or clay; dirty, covered with dirt.
2. luto, lutare: to smear with mud or dirt.
3. lutulentus, lutulenta, lutulentum: muddy, dirty; morally filthy, dirty.
4. lutum, luti: mud, mire, dirt; scum.
lutaceous
1. Pertaining to, made of, or formed from mud.
2. Formed from or having the fine texture of mud.
3. Related to, or having, the fine-grained texture of a sedimentary rock formed from mud.
lutarious
A reference to, living in, or looking like mud.
lute, lutes, luting
1. A substance, especially a cement of clay or the like, for packing a joint, coating a porous surface, etc., to produce imperviousness to gas or liquid.
2. A soft, earthy packing mixture used for closing or sealing apertures, joints, or porous surfaces in order to make them resistant to liquids or gases.
3. A packing ring (as of rubber for a fruit jar).
luteous
Like mud or clay.
luter
One who applies lute (mud, etc.).
luticole, luticolous
Living in mud.
luticolous, luticole
Inhabiting or living in mud.
lutit
Bedaubed or befouled with mud.
lutite
Any fine-grained, consolidated sedimentary rock derived from or composed of mud and its associated materials.
lutose
1. Covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
2. Covered with mud or clay.
lutulent
Muddy, filthy, impure; turbid, thick.
pollutant
Any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, water, or other natural resource harmful or unsuitable for a specific purpose.
pollute
1. To make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty; to soil, befoul.
2. To make someone morally or spiritually impure.
3. To violate the sacred nature of a holy place.
4. From an Indo-European base meaning "dirt, to make dirty".

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.


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