loess plateau
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km² in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Loess Plateau China’s Loess Plateau is the most widely distributed loess area on earth. This loess is a deep deposit of paleosol, and the plateau is most systematically and completely developed for crops (Zhu Xianmo, 1986)."
- "First excavated in A.D. 1963 at Lantian (near Xi’an) on the warm temperate Loess Plateau, the Lantian people lived about 800,000 to 600,000 years before the present."