löss

löss (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of loess.
   • 1881, James Geikie, Prehistoric Europe: A Geological Sketch, London: Edward Stanford, […], page 147:

     All those tracts of löss which occur within the valleys proper come under the designation of valley-löss, while the term “hill-löss” is applied to those masses which are less closely connected with the valleys, and sometimes extend over plateaux and hilly ground between separate drainage-areas.

   • 1910, Frank Leverett, Comparison of North American and European Glacial Deposits, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 301:

     Among the mountains of middle Germany, and along the north border, there have been found two distinct deposits of löss separated by a weathered zone.

   • 2023, Daniele L. R. Marini, “Chinese Philosophical and Mathematical Thought”, in Imago Cosmi: The Vision of the Cosmos and the History of Astronomical Machines (Astronomers’ Universe), Springer Nature, →ISBN, footnote 2, page 321:

     In northern China, the Löss Plateau dates back at least two million years and consists of alternating layers of löss and soil.

From German Löss.

• IPA^(key): /lʏs/

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• Homophone: lus

löss f or m (uncountable)

1. (geology) loess

   Synonym: Limburgse klei

• Occasionally treated as neuter (het löss).

• löss on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

löss

1. indefinite plural of lus
2. indefinite genitive plural of lus

• söls