kame (k m)n. A short ridge or mound of sand and gravel deposited during the melting of glacial ice. [Dialectal, a low ridge, from Middle English camb, comb, comb, from Old English; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.] |
kame [keɪm]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) an irregular mound or ridge of gravel, sand, etc., deposited by water derived from melting glaciers
[Scottish and northern English variant of comb]
| kame (km) A small hill or ridge consisting of layers of sand and gravel deposited by a meltwater stream at the margin of a melting glacier. |
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