Definitions
Fine windblown silt or clay-rich sediment.
Word origin
Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
“Locally weighted regression, or loess, is a procedure for fitting a regression surface to data through multivariate smoothing.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Windblown silt”5 letters
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