yardang
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yardang
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From yardan, ablative of Turkish yar ("cliff", "precipice").
noun 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 carv
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noun streamlined protuberance carved from bedrock
| 中文 | 雅丹 yǎdān |
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Talk about this word "yardang." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/yardang. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. yardang. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/yardang "yardang." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/yardang.Cite this
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title = {yardang},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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