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ICEFALL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does icefall mean?
• ICEFALL (noun)
The noun ICEFALL has 1 sense:
1. a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall
Familiarity information: ICEFALL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("icefall" is a kind of...):
ice (the frozen part of a body of water)
Holonyms ("icefall" is a part of...):
glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)
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