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单词 glacialist
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glacialistn.

/ˈɡleɪʃɪəlɪst/
Etymology: < glacial adj. + -ist suffix.
(a) One who makes a special study of glacial phenomena. (b) One who explains certain geological phenomena as due to glacial action.
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1854 Fraser's Mag. 49 249 Ice, a tolerably hard, brittle solid (notwithstanding the plasticity with which modern glacialists endow it).
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 165 Nor is it only the effects of land-ice which the glacialist sees marked upon the rocks of Britain.
1889 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 358 The glacialist sees indubitable evidences of a former vast expanse of water.
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