morainic

Variant of moraine

noun

a mound, ridge, or mass of rocks, gravel, sand, clay, etc. carried and deposited directly by a glacier, along its side (), at its lower end (), or beneath the ice ()

Origin: Fr < dial. morêna < morre, muzzle, akin to Sp morro, snout, headland < VL *murru, echoic word for snout

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