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# loess

«loess» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very fine, yellowish-brown soil made of dust blown by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (loess, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (geography) A very fine, yellowish-brown soil made of dust blown by the wind, often after the Ice Age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/#m1)

2) It makes very fertile farmland but wears away easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons about soils and rocks, loess is wind-blown sediment; the Loess Plateau in China is famous, and the Yellow River gets its colour from loess. Phrases: the Loess Plateau, loess soil.

### examples

- Loess is soil carried by the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/#x1)
- The Yellow River is yellow because of loess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/#x2)
- Farmers grow good crops on loess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/#x3)
- The Loess Plateau in China is covered with deep loess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/#x4)
- Loess can be washed away quickly by heavy rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/#x5)
- Our geography teacher showed us a jar of fine loess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Pronounced LOH-es, LURSS or LESS. Comes from German. A specialist word in geography.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «loess» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loess/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.