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glacial polishes

glacial polishes is the plural of glacial polish.

Meaning of glacial polish

Noun

glacial polish (usually uncountable, plural glacial polishes)

  1. (usually) The appearance of rock after having been worn smooth by a passing glacier.
    • Tenaya Lake was at one time under as much as 2,460 feet of glacial ice that produced a pressure of about 74 tons per square foot and extensive glacial polish (fig. 18).2001, Bill Guyton, Glaciers of California

Questions about glacial polishes

What is glacial polishes the plural of?
Glacial polishes is the plural of glacial polish.

Words near glacial polishes in the dictionary

  1. glacial milk
  2. glacial milks
  3. glacial period
  4. glacial periods
  5. glacial polish
  6. glacial polishes
  7. glacial till
  8. glacial tills
  9. glacial trough
  10. glacial troughs
  11. glacialism

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