glacier : Idioms & Phrases
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alpine glacier
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noun a glacier that moves down from a high valley
Alpine glacier.
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alpine type of glacier
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noun a glacier that moves down from a high valley
Alpine glacier.
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continental glacier
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noun a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice
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glacier lily
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noun dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers
snow lily; Erythronium grandiflorum.
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Glacier theory
(Geol.) , the theory that large parts of the frigid and temperate zones were covered with ice during the glacial, or ice, period, and that, by the agency of this ice, the loose materials on the earth's surface, called drift or diluvium, were transported and accumulated.
Webster 1913
great mendenhall glacier
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noun a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska
Great Mendenhall Glacier.
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mendenhall glacier
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noun a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska
Great Mendenhall Glacier.
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piedmont glacier
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noun a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice
Piedmont glacier.
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piedmont type of glacier
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noun a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice
Piedmont glacier.
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polar glacier
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noun a glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles