morainal

M3O1R1A1I1N1A1L1

adjective

Of or pertaining to a moraine.

OriginProto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← English moraine →
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Meanings

adjectivemorainal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to a moraine.

    Below the glaciers throughout the entire Wind River Range great numbers of morainal lakes are found.

    1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter III, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68
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    Grand Lake, probably the largest, is about three miles long by one mile wide. Its basin appears to be largely due to a morainal dam.

    1915 April 28, Enos A. Mills, The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 157

    The ice stopped at Perth Amboy, Metuchen, North Plainfield, Madison, Morristown—leaving a sinuous, morainal, lobate line that not only connects these New Jersey towns but keeps on going to the Rocky Mountains.

    1983, John McPhee, In Suspect Terrain; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 150

Origin

  1. Englishmoraine
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishmorainal

From moraine + -al.

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Translations

Italian morenico
  • morenicoof or pertaining to a moraine

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

manorial
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Chicago

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