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glacial lakes

glacial lakes is the plural of glacial lake.

Meaning of glacial lake

Noun

glacial lake (plural glacial lakes)

  1. Any lake formed in or adjacent to a glacier by glacial activity; especially a lake formed by melted water behind an ice dam, often temporary and liable to drain catastrophically when the ice dam breaks.

Questions about glacial lakes

What is glacial lakes the plural of?
Glacial lakes is the plural of glacial lake.

Words near glacial lakes in the dictionary

  1. glacial flour
  2. glacial humour
  3. glacial lake
  4. glacial lake outburst flood
  5. glacial lake outburst floods
  6. glacial lakes
  7. glacial maximum
  8. glacial milk
  9. glacial milks
  10. glacial period
  11. glacial periods

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