moraine
noun/məˈreɪn/, /mɒˈreɪn/
/məˈreɪn/
[uncountable, countable] (specialist)- a mass of earth, stones, etc., carried along by a glacier and left when it meltsTopics Geographyc2Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Italian dialect morena, from French dialect morre ‘snout’.
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