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glacier

13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. glacier (noun)
  2. alpine glacier (noun)
  3. cascading glacier (noun)
  4. continental glacier (noun)
  5. debris glacier (noun)
  6. hanging glacier (noun)
  7. mountain glacier (noun)
  8. piedmont glacier (noun)
  9. rock glacier (noun)
  10. talus glacier (noun)
  11. tidewater glacier (noun)
  12. trunk glacier (noun)
  13. valley glacier (noun)

gla·cier

noun
\ˈglā-shər also -zhər, especially British ˈgla-sē-ər or ˈglā-sē-\

Definition of GLACIER

: a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface
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Origin of GLACIER

French, from Middle French dialect (Franco-Provençal), from glace ice, from Latin glacies; akin to Latin gelu frost — more at cold
First Known Use: 1744

Other Geology Terms

anthracite, boulder, cwm, erratic, igneous, intrusive, mesa, sedimentary, silt, swale

Rhymes with GLACIER

rasure

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