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glacialist

glacialist noun: someone who attributed the phenomena of drift, in geology, to glaciers.

Noun

glacialist (plural glacialists)

  1. (historical) Someone who attributed the phenomena of drift, in geology, to glaciers.
    • At first, the speculations of such men as Dr. Buckland upon the ice-markings excited derision, and led to the publication of caricatures. Next, when its claims could not be set aside, some thought it the same with the flood of Noah, and others believed it to represent the chaos supposed to have...1881 December, Charles Henry Hitchcock, “North America in the Ice Period”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 20
  2. a glaciologist

Forms of glacialist

pluralglacialists

Origin of glacialist

From glacial + -ist.

Questions about glacialist

What does glacialist mean?
Glacialist means someone who attributed the phenomena of drift, in geology, to glaciers.
What part of speech is glacialist?
Glacialist is a noun.
What is the plural of glacialist?
The plural of glacialist is glacialists.

Words near glacialist in the dictionary

  1. glacial till
  2. glacial tills
  3. glacial trough
  4. glacial troughs
  5. glacialism
  6. glacialist
  7. glacialists
  8. glaciality
  9. glacialize
  10. glacialized
  11. glacializes

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