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MORAINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does moraine mean?
• MORAINE (noun)
The noun MORAINE has 1 sense:
1. accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
Familiarity information: MORAINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("moraine" is a kind of...):
earth; ground (the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface)
Holonyms ("moraine" is a part of...):
glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)
Context examples
The brown streaks on the glaciers are lateral and medial moraines.
(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)
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