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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mo•raine (mə rān′),USA pronunciation n. - Geography, Geologya ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- Geography, Geologya deposit of such material left on the ground by a glacier.
- *murr- mound, elevation, apparently pre-Latin) + -ena suffix of landforms, probably of pre-Latin origin, originally; compare Upper Italian (Piedmont) morena heap of organic detritus, Spanish moreña heap of stones, moraine
- Savoyard dialect, dialectal morêna rise in the ground along the lower edge of a sloping field, equivalent. to mour(o) mound, accumulation of earth (
- French
- 1780–90
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: moraine /mɒˈreɪn/ n - a mass of debris, carried by glaciers and forming ridges and mounds when deposited
Etymology: 18th Century: from French, from Savoy dialect morena, of obscure originmoˈrainal, moˈrainic adj |