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单词 glacieret
释义 glacieret|glæsɪəˈrɛt, ˈgleɪs-, ˈgleɪʃ-|
[f. glacier + -et.]
A small glacier; applied by Leconte to a mass of ice revealed after an extended period of dry weather has caused the wastage of overlying névé in the Sierra Nevada.
1875J. Leconte in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. X. 138 The thin moving ice-fields, the glacierets which still linger among the highest peaks and shadiest hollows of the Sierra.1904G. K. Gilbert Glaciers & Glaciation i. 11 Small alpine glaciers are sometimes called glacierets, or, if visible high on the sides of mountain valleys, hanging glaciers.1922Wright & Priestley Glaciology 109 A snow-drift glacier, or glacieret.1951G. Taylor Geogr. 20th Cent. 614 Glacierets, small glaciers, may develop from snow⁓drifts.
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