Usually means: Wind-deposited, fine-grained, fertile soil.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. loess: Merriam-Webster
  2. loess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. loess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. loess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. loess: Vocabulary.com
  6. Loess, loess: Wordnik
  7. loess: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. loess: Wiktionary
  9. loess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. loess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. loess: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. loess: Dictionary.com
  13. loess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. LOESS, Loess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Loess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. loess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. loess: Rhymezone
  18. Loess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. loess: Robb: German English
  20. loess: FreeDictionary.org
  21. loess: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. loess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. loess: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loess: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loess: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LOESS: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. loess: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loess: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. loess: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See loessial as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (loess)

noun:  (geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.

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