"terminal moraine" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: terminal moraines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} terminal moraine (plural terminal moraines)
  1. A moraine left at the point of furthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet. Categories (place): Landforms Synonyms: end moraine Translations (terminal moraine): endemoræne [common-gender] (Danish), reunamoreeni (Finnish), reunamuodostuma (Finnish), Endmoräne [feminine] (German), endemorene [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), endemorene [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-terminal_moraine-en-noun-TOlYwRXH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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