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)

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