Meaning | A slowly moving mass of ice. |
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Parts | icefall | A steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall |
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moraine | accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier |
neve | The upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice |
Narrower | Alpine glacier, Alpine type of glacier | A glacier that moves down from a high valley |
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Piedmont glacier, Piedmont type of glacier | A type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska |
continental glacier | A glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice |
Broader | ice mass | A large mass of ice |
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Substances | ice, water ice | water frozen / frozen in the solid state |
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Spanish | glaciares, glaciar, helero |
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Catalan | glacera |
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Adjectives | glacial | relating to or derived from a glacier |
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Verbs | glaciate | become frozen and covered with glaciers |
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glaciate | cover with ice or snow or a glacier |