MENDENHALL GLACIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mendenhall Glacier mean? 

• MENDENHALL GLACIER (noun)
  The noun MENDENHALL GLACIER has 1 sense:

1. a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska

  Familiarity information: MENDENHALL GLACIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENDENHALL GLACIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Great Mendenhall Glacier; Mendenhall Glacier

Instance hypernyms:

Piedmont glacier; Piedmont type of glacier (a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice)

Holonyms ("Mendenhall Glacier" is a part of...):

AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)