ice-borneadj.
/ˈʌɪsbɔːn/, U.S. /ˈaɪsˌbɔrn/ Chiefly Geology.
Borne by or on ice; esp. (of a boulder, sediment, etc.) transported during a glacial period.
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a1813 A. Rees Cycl. (U.S. ed.) XIX. at Ice Ice-borne, in Geology, is..the manner in which large fragments of rocks have been transported..on masses of ice, floating on the ocean.
1850 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 8) xvi. 231 The line of coast..is strewed..with iceborne boulders, often 6 feet in diameter.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xi. 363 I suspected that these islands [sc. the Azores] had been partly stocked by ice-borne seeds, during the Glacial epoch.
1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 Oct. 1164/2 This is one of the first, if not actually the first case on record of an iceborne infection of typhoid fever in which the bacillus has been isolated.
1951 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 59 369/1 The Cinder Cone at the front of this glacier bears on its northern slope and summit scattered ice-borne erratics.
1977 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 280 203 Material primarily ice-borne in origin, and rich in striated stones, rests on the head, but it is not clear whether this material was introduced by a contemporaneous glacier.
2006 Wanderlust Mar. 11/1 Alcohol won't kill food- or ice-borne bacteria; messed-about-with-drinks..are often sources of gastroenteritis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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