Findling — meaning in English

English meaning

• erratic adj Unpredictable and inconsistent; changing without any clear pattern.
• foundling noun An abandoned baby or child found and cared for by someone other than its parents.
• rock noun A hard natural mineral material, or a piece of it such as a stone or boulder.

Senses

Findling is used for these senses in English:

• erratic (geology) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier.
• foundling An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.
• glacial erratic A rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests, usually large and transported there by a glacier.
• rock (chiefly, UK, Irish) A boulder or large stone; or (US, Canada) a smaller stone; a pebble.

erratic — full definition

1. adj Unpredictable and inconsistent; changing without any clear pattern.
2. noun A large boulder carried far from its origin by a glacier and left behind when the ice melted.

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