English

Noun

roche moutonnée ‎(plural roches moutonnées)

1. (geography) A rocky hillock which has been shaped by glacial erosion.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 100:

     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.