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moraine

noun
🔊/məˈreɪn/, 🔊/mɒˈreɪn/
🔊/məˈreɪn/
 [uncountable, countable] (specialist)
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  1. a mass of earth, stones, etc., carried along by a glacier and left when it melts冰碛Topics Geographyc2
    Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Italian dialect morena, from French dialect morre ‘snout’.