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Definition of moraine noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

moraine

noun

/məˈreɪn/,

/mɒˈreɪn/

/məˈreɪn/

[uncountable, countable] (specialist)

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a mass of earth, stones, etc., carried along by a glacier and left when it meltsTopics Geographyc2
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Italian dialect morena, from French dialect morre ‘snout’.

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