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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 iceplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CONTINENTAL GLACIER (noun)


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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