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Loess

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Noun

1. loess

a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Loess

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noun
a light-coloured fine-grained accumulation of clay and silt particles that have been deposited by the wind

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Loess

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noun
a fine-grained, yellowish-brown, extremely fertile loam deposited mainly by the wind and found widely in North America, Asia, and Europe

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Loess

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n.
A buff to gray windblown deposit of fine-grained, calcareous silt or clay.

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