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glacialists

glacialists is the plural of glacialist.

Meaning of glacialist

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

Questions about glacialists

What is glacialists the plural of?
Glacialists is the plural of glacialist.

Words near glacialists in the dictionary

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

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