PIEDMONT TYPE OF GLACIER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice

Synonyms:

Piedmont glacier; Piedmont type of glacier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("Piedmont type of glacier" is a kind of...):

glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)

Instance hyponyms:

Great Mendenhall Glacier; Mendenhall Glacier (a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska)

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