loess

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /lɜːs/|/ˈləʊɪs/    美 /ˈloʊ.əs/|/lɛs/|/lʌs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin. countable,uncountable
    — The Yellow River—the “Sorrow of China”—comes down from the loess hills into the great plain of China on a gently sloping fan. The river has two possible outlets to the sea, the one north of the Shantung Peninsula into the Gulf of Chihli, the other some hundreds of miles to the south of the Peninsula.

词形变化

loesses plural löss alternative

词源

Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease.
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