lössic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of loessic.
Example Sentences
- "According to the Belgian geologists this upper clay is distinguished by the presence of remains of the reindeer, while those of the mammoth occur in the lower or lössic portion."
- "By reason of the potential fertility of its lössic soils wherever water could be made available, it has afforded a productive agricultural base for political and military activity, and by reason of its location and physiography it has provided the entrance to the main routeway from the Chinese heartland to Central, and ultimately to Western, Asia."
- "The Chinese Government has become deeply concerned for the conservation of its extensive lössic soils in the west, the product of millennia of airborne transport of dust and soil particles from arid inner-Asian plateaux and basins."
Etymology
From löss + -ic.