adjective
- rounded and smoothed by glacial erosion, as a rock or hill
Usage: geology; often used in the phrase 'roche moutonnée'
Examples
- The moutonnee hills in the valley showed clear signs of ancient glaciation.
- Geologists identified the moutonnee rock formations as evidence of the last ice age.
- The landscape featured several moutonnee outcrops polished smooth by glacial movement.
- A roche moutonnee is a distinctive landform created by glacial abrasion over thousands of years.