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Loess

Loess

(lẽe)

,

Noun.

[G.

löss

.]

(Geol.)

A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

Definition 2024

loess

loess

See also: löss and lœss

English

Noun

loess ‎(plural loesses)

(geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.

Translations

sediment of eolian origin

Belarusian: лёс m ‎(ljos)
Bulgarian: льос m ‎(lʹos)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 黃砂, 黄砂 ‎(wong⁴ sa¹)

Hakka: 黃砂, 黄砂 ‎(vong11 sa24)

Mandarin: 黃砂 (zh), 黄砂 (zh) ‎(huángshā), 黃土 (zh), 黄土 (zh) ‎(huángtǔ)

Min Nan: 黃色 (zh-min-nan), 黄砂 ‎(hong2 sê1)

Wu: 黃砂, 黄砂 ‎(ɦuaŋ so)
Czech: spraš m
Danish: løss (da)
Dutch: löss
Esperanto: leŭso
Finnish: lössi (fi)
French: lœss (fr) m
German: Löss (de) m

Hungarian: lösz (hu)
Italian: loess m
Japanese: 黄砂 ‎(こうさ, kōsa)
Korean: 황사 (ko) ‎(hwangsa) (黃砂)
Malay: loes
Norwegian: løss
Persian: بادرفت (fa)
Polish: less (pl) m
Portuguese: loess m, loesse m
Russian: лёсс (ru) m ‎(ljoss)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: лес m

Roman: les (sh) m
Spanish: loess (es) m
Ukrainian: лес m ‎(les)
Vietnamese: hoàng sa

Anagrams

loses, sloes, soles

Portuguese

Alternative forms

loesse

Noun

loess m (uncountable)

(geology) loess (accumulation of wind-blown sediment)