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morainal

morainal adjective: of or pertaining to a moraine.

Adjective

morainal (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a moraine.
    • Below the glaciers throughout the entire Wind River Range great numbers of morainal lakes are found.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter III, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...
    • Grand Lake, probably the largest, is about three miles long by one mile wide. Its basin appears to be largely due to a morainal dam.1915 April, Enos A. Mills, The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 157

Origin of morainal

From moraine + -al.

Words formed from morainal

Questions about morainal

What does morainal mean?
Morainal means of or pertaining to a moraine.
What part of speech is morainal?
Morainal is an adjective.

Words near morainal in the dictionary

  1. morah
  2. morahs
  3. morai
  4. moraic
  5. Morain
  6. morainal
  7. moraine
  8. moraines
  9. morainic
  10. morainic delta
  11. morainic deltas

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