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anteglacial

anteglacial adjective: occurring before a glacial period.

Adjective

anteglacial (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before a glacial period.
    • I followed it for a time—to the delta and the swamps, and at last to the flashing sea where that great beast Abaia, carried from the farther shores of the universe in anteglacial days, wallows until the moment comes for him and his kind to devour the continents.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 127

Origin of anteglacial

From ante- + glacial.

Questions about anteglacial

What does anteglacial mean?
Anteglacial means occurring before a glacial period.
What part of speech is anteglacial?
Anteglacial is an adjective.

Words near anteglacial in the dictionary

  1. anteflexions
  2. antefurca
  3. antefurcae
  4. antefurcal
  5. antegastric
  6. anteglacial
  7. antegonial
  8. antegrade
  9. antegradely
  10. antegrammatical
  11. antehelices

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