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Meanings of humus in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hummus"
Examples for "hummus"
1
Simply whisk a tub of hummus with plain yoghurt with olive oil.
2
Stir into a standard 230g hummus pot, and you're good to go.
3
The hummus plates were ravaged; the party was starting to thin out.
4
Sliced rainbow vegetables and a dollop of hummus is a perfect starter.
5
Then there is the Kim's Cravings recipe for super-simple hummus chicken salad.
1
Several ranges of own-brand houmous sold by Aldi and Lidl have been recalled over fears they may have been contaminated with salmonella.
2
Retailer Marks & Spencer, which has a number of Irish branches, has recalled two houmous products contaminated with the potentially fatal salmonella bug.
3
After they had gone a mile or two, Boo-Khaloum rode up and desired one of the Arabs to cover the major with a houmous.
4
There is houmous for Kitty or Jem, whichever one of them is vegetarian this week, in a trio of dips with guacamole and taramasalata.
1
Alden knew he could make a whopping amount of money in a hurry if he brought out post-humous Driver novels.
2
Excellent humous material may be constantly at hand if the leaves, garden refuse, and some of the manure are piled and composted (p. 114).
Usage of humus in English
1
Soils that are poor in humus are generally in need of nitrogen.
2
Existence subsides into a humus that at first sight looks entirely anonymous.
3
Even though it looks like humus, it has not yet fully decomposed.
4
Of course most of this great supply of humus is very old.
5
Thrives well upon new rich soils that are well supplied with humus.
6
Large-scale holistic farmers must grow their own humus on their own farm.
7
Organic gardeners have many vague beliefs about how humus makes plants healthy.
8
The air retained the rich fetor of rotting humus and bird droppings.
9
Why were the wet humus and clay cooler than the wet sand?
10
Yet he'd seen boars hide beneath the humus in the forest that way.
11
In nature, humus formation goes on in the presence of air and moisture.
12
The roots also put large quantities of humus in the soil.
13
The humus introduced by the liberal applications of manure has made it black.
14
Most important, humus is the last stage in the decomposition of organic matter.
15
The mingling of humus and the subsoil is brought about by several means.
16
The land is impoverished by the use of commercial fertilizers, unbalanced by humus.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common