MEANING
A smooth, elongated hill formed beneath moving glacial ice, commonly consisting largely of till.
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- drumlin field
- elongated drumlin
- drumlin ridge
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A field of drumlins stretched toward the coast.
The drumlin rose gently at one end and more steeply at the other.
From the road, the long drumlin looked like a rounded wave.
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- drumlin
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular drumlin; plural drumlins. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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