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Meaning of roche moutonnée | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ɹɒʃ muːˈtɒneɪ/

Definitions

A rock formation created by glacial erosion.

Equivalents

Français roche moutonnée
Polski baraniec muton

Examples

“Some are obviously roches moutonnées, polished and shaped by the ice-sheet that covered this whole landscape during the last million years of the Pleistocene ice age – a geological yesterday compared with the formation of the Alpine chain itself.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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