What does the word glacial mean?
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Pertaining to glaciers; icy.
Part of speech: adjective
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Usage examples for glacial
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The train skirts the shore of Lough Corrib, and one has beautiful glimpses of the lake and the hills beyond; and then it plunges into a wild and desolate country, strewn with great glacial boulders, some of them poised so precariously on hill- side and cliff- edge that it seems the rattle of every passing train would bring them crashing down. – The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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At all times difficult, this travel was now made especially dangerous by the fact that the old glacial surface was not yet covered by the hard- packed winter drifts. – True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely