: an accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by a glacier
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Meadowbrook Nature Preserve is 300 acres of moraine forest, wetlands, streams, and agricultural lands, filled with several trails and a rich variety of wildlife.
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Deena Butterfield, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
Kettles, moraines, eskers, drumlins, wetlands, hanging valleys, outwash plains: Across, down, and up Wisconsin, you crisscross these glacial vestiges, repeated in random bursts like a particularly chaotic and tremendous platter of hotdish.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
One of the highlights of its vegan menu is the lemon meringue tart with the airiest Italian moraine and a tangy lemon curd base.
—Kaila Yu, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
One is called Moraine, not lemon meringue, like moraine, like for a glacial moraine.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
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Deena Butterfield, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
Kettles, moraines, eskers, drumlins, wetlands, hanging valleys, outwash plains: Across, down, and up Wisconsin, you crisscross these glacial vestiges, repeated in random bursts like a particularly chaotic and tremendous platter of hotdish.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
One of the highlights of its vegan menu is the lemon meringue tart with the airiest Italian moraine and a tangy lemon curd base.
—Kaila Yu, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
One is called Moraine, not lemon meringue, like moraine, like for a glacial moraine.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
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“Moraine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moraine. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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moraine
noun
mo·raine
mə-ˈrān 
: a pile of earth and stones carried and deposited by a glacier
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