yardang
yardang noun: a large wind-eroded mass of soft or poorly consolidated rock in a desert region which lies parallel to the prevailing winds, often with an unusual shape.
Noun
yardang (plural yardangs)
- A large wind-eroded mass of soft or poorly consolidated rock in a desert region which lies parallel to the prevailing winds, often with an unusual shape.
- My Chinese guide and I were standing in the Yardang National Geopark, on the border between Gansu Province and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China’s extreme northwest. The nearest town was Dunhuang, 110 miles to the southeast. Enormous yardangs — curving sandstone and mudstone strata...2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020
yardang meaning in Tamil
yardang in Tamil
- காற்றரிப்பு பாறைத்தோற்றுரு
Forms of yardang
| plural | yardangs |
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Origin of yardang
From yardan, ablative of Turkish yar ("cliff", "precipice").
Questions about yardang
- What does yardang mean?
- Yardang means a large wind-eroded mass of soft or poorly consolidated rock in a desert region which lies parallel to the prevailing winds, often with an unusual shape.
- What is yardang in Tamil?
- Yardang in Tamil is காற்றரிப்பு பாறைத்தோற்றுரு. See Yardang meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is yardang?
- Yardang is a noun.
- What is the plural of yardang?
- The plural of yardang is yardangs.
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