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ice floes

ice floes is the plural of ice floe.

Meaning of ice floe

Noun

ice floe (plural ice floes)

  1. Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
  2. An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river.
    Synonyms:
    ice float
  3. An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier
  4. A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.

Questions about ice floes

What is ice floes the plural of?
Ice floes is the plural of ice floe.

Words near ice floes in the dictionary

  1. ice fish
  2. ice fished
  3. ice fishes
  4. ice fishing
  5. ice floe
  6. ice floes
  7. ice fog
  8. ice fogs
  9. ice foot
  10. ice foots
  11. ice fountain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ice floes (page history and authors); ice floe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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