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moraines

moraines is the plural of moraine.

Meaning of moraine

Noun

moraine (plural moraines)

  1. An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
    • This fact is suggestive in connection with the question whether the moraines mark different epochs of the ice age or different stages in the recession of the ice of one epoch.
      This moraine, like the previous ones, influenced the drainage of the country. Several streams have evidently been located...1896, James Edward Todd, The Moraines of the Missouri Coteau, and Their Attendant Deposits, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 144, page 47

Phrases with moraines

Questions about moraines

What is moraines the plural of?
Moraines is the plural of moraine.

Words near moraines in the dictionary

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

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