English Explanatory Dictionary

Driftless Area

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A hilly region in the midwestern United States that escaped glaciation during the last ice age.

Word forms

Driftless Area the Driftless Area

Etymology

So named because the area is relatively free of glacial drift.

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