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单词 morainic
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
mo•raine  (mə rān),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Geography, Geologya ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
  2. 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
mo•rainal, mo•rainic, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
moraine /mɒˈreɪn/ n
  1. 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 origin

moˈrainal, moˈrainic adj
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