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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Loess \Loess\ (l[~e]e), n. [G. l["o]ss.] (Geol.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

loess n 1: a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "loess": alluvion, alluvium, ash, cinder, clinker, debris, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, draff, dregs, drift, dross, ember, feces, froth, grounds, lees, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, scoria, scree, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, soot, sublimate