Loess

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A buff to gray windblown deposit of fine-grained, calcareous silt or clay.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In geology, originally, a certain loamy deposit in the valley of the Rhine; now, by extension, any detrital accumulation more or less resembling the original loess occurring in other parts of the world.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dirt    soil   
    Cross Reference
    remodifled loess   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Lois   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    þber    landside    dentin    lantern-lit    forest-crowned    late-victorian    banked-up    coralite    4-5-1    amygdaloid   
     
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