laterite
- n a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides
- All around are lifeless things retaining walls of blotchy laterite, and sandstone temples that speak little of Angkor's former grandeur and its golden spires.
- The village was in the Northeast where the soil was principally laterite-based, that deep-red powdery earth which turns into something resembling bolognaise sauce during the rainy .
- In recent months its roads have been paved with crushed stone or topped with pressed laterite.