continental glacier

continental glacier
noun
a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice
Hypernyms: ↑glacier
Hyponyms: ↑polar glacier

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noun
: an ice sheet covering a considerable part of a continent — compare oceanity

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continental glacier,
a sheet of ice that covers a large part of a continent, such as that which covers Greenland.

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