LOESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("loess" is a kind of...):

dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)

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