| 单词 | parallel roads |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparallel roads parallel roads n. Geology a series of parallel terraces occurring on the sides of a glacial valley, each of which represents a former shoreline or beach corresponding to a temporary level of a glacial lake. ΚΠ 1817 Trans. Geol. Soc. 4 314 On the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. vi. 53 The Parallel Roads in the north-east..are so nearly horizontal as to seem undoubtedly erosional in origin. 1988 A. Wainwright Wainwright in Scotl. (1992) (BNC) 126 The visitors who turn up this road do so having heard or read of the ‘parallel roads’, a remarkable geological antiquity found in other Scottish glens but nowhere as clearly defined as in Glen Roy. < as lemmas |
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