The AI-powered English dictionary
countable and uncountable, plural loesses
(geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin quotations
The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain.
1987, Amy Shui, Stuart Thompson, “China and its people”, in Chinese Food and Drink, Wayland Publishers, page 4, column 2
They blast their sand westwards across the steppe, coating the foothills of the Brooks Range in an icing-sugar dust of the loose, windblown sand-silt mixture known as loess.
2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 3