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单词 loess
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
lo•ess  (lōes, les, lus),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Geologya loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
  • Swiss German lösch loose, slack (sch taken as a dialect, dialectal equivalent of German s), akin to German lose loose
  • German Löss
  • 1825–35
lo•essi•al, lo•essal, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
loess /ˈləʊɪs; German: lœs/ n
  1. a light-coloured fine-grained accumulation of clay and silt particles that have been deposited by the wind
Etymology: 19th Century: from German Löss, from Swiss German dialect lösch loose

loessial /ləʊˈɛsɪəl/ adj
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