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yardangs

yardangs is the plural of yardang.

Meaning of yardang

Noun

yardang (plural yardangs)

  1. 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

Questions about yardangs

What is yardangs the plural of?
Yardangs is the plural of yardang.

Words near yardangs in the dictionary

  1. yardage
  2. yardage book
  3. yardage books
  4. yardages
  5. yardang
  6. yardangs
  7. yardarita
  8. yardaritas
  9. yardarm
  10. yardarm and yardarm
  11. yardarm it

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