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loessial

loessial adjective: of or relating to loess.

Adjective

loessial (comparative more loessial, superlative most loessial)

  1. Of or relating to loess.
    • When Washtucna Coulee could not contain the great surge, floodwaters rose to make one of the most significant records on the entire plateau. In two places, they topped the divide between the nearly parallel preglacial Palouse and Snake valleys, crossing it to enter the Snake Canyon. They swept away...1969 September, J. Harlen Bretz, “The Lake Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scabland”, in The Journal of Geology, volume 77, number 5, University of Chicago Press, →JSTOR, Flood Crossings of the...
    Synonyms:
    loessal

Synonyms of loessial

Forms of loessial

comparativemore loessial
superlativemost loessial

Origin of loessial

From loess + -ial.

Questions about loessial

What does loessial mean?
Loessial means of or relating to loess.
What part of speech is loessial?
Loessial is an adjective.

Words near loessial in the dictionary

  1. Loesers
  2. loess
  3. Loess Plateau
  4. loessal
  5. loesses
  6. loessial
  7. loessic
  8. loessification
  9. loessland
  10. loesslands
  11. Loew

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