MENDENHALL GLACIER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska

Synonyms:

Great Mendenhall Glacier; Mendenhall Glacier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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)

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