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Drumlin         
Um drumlin (droimnín em irlandês) é uma colina alongada em forma de dorso de baleia formado pela acção dos glaciares. O seu eixo longo é paralelo ao movimento do gelo.
drumlin      
/'drÃmiin/ [ing.] s.m. ( -sXIX )
-geol colina oblonga formada pela ação de geleiras glaciárias
-gram pl.: drumling (ing.)
-etim ing. drumlin (c1833), do irl. gaél. druim 'dorso, crista' + o suf. dim. ing. -ling
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1. Not only did it survive the onslaught but this recycled tapestry of meadows, ponds, grassland and forests in drumlin–dotted country near Lake Ontario has swelled to 17,000 acres from a 6,400–acre plot rescued in 1'37 by the U.S. government.
2. His nonfiction books included "City of Discontent: An Interpretive Biography of Vachel Lindsay," "Mark the Glove Boy, or The Last Days of Richard Nixon," and "Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck." ___ Huang Ju BEIJING (AP) _ Vice Premier Huang Ju, a key ally of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin who climbed the ranks of Shanghai politics to join the Communist Party‘s inner sanctum of power, died early Saturday, the official Xinhua News Agency said.