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urstromtäler

Syllables: ur·strom·täl·erUK/ˈʊəstɹəʊmˌtɛlə/US/ˈʊɹstɹoʊmˌtɛləɹ/

urstromtäler is the plural of urstromtal.

Meaning of urstromtal

Noun

urstromtal (plural urstromtäler or urstromtals)

  1. A broad glacial valley formed during an ice age by meltwater flowing roughly parallel to the ice margin.
    • On the southern margin the plateau falls to a sandy outwash plain which merges into the zone of urstromtäler.1950, Margaret Reid Shackleton, Europe: A Regional Geography, London: Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, page 263

Origin of urstromtäler

Unadapted borrowing from German Urstromtäler.

Questions about urstromtäler

What is urstromtäler the plural of?
Urstromtäler is the plural of urstromtal.
How do you pronounce urstromtäler?
Urstromtäler is pronounced /ˈʊəstɹəʊmˌtɛlə/ (UK).

Words near urstromtäler in the dictionary

  1. ursophiles
  2. Ursprache
  3. Ursprachen
  4. urstromtal
  5. urstromtals
  6. urstromtäler
  7. Ursua
  8. Ursuas
  9. ursuk
  10. Ursula
  11. Ursula butterflies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urstromtäler (page history and authors); urstromtal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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