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CONTINENTAL GLACIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does continental glacier mean?
• CONTINENTAL GLACIER (noun)
The noun CONTINENTAL GLACIER has 1 sense:
1. a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice
Familiarity information: CONTINENTAL GLACIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("continental glacier" is a kind of...):
glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "continental glacier"):
polar glacier (a glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles)
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