moraine

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a mass or ridge of rock, soil, and other debris carried and deposited by a glacier

   A long moraine marked the glacier's former edge across the valley.

Borrowed from French moraine, from a Franco-Provencal and Savoyard word for a mound of earth or stones, probably related to morre ("muzzle, projecting snout"). Geologists applied it to the ridges and accumulations left by glaciers.

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