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MORAINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("moraine" is a kind of...):
earth; ground (the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface)
Holonyms ("moraine" is a part of...):
glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)