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ice shelves

ice shelves is the plural of ice shelf.

Meaning of ice shelf

Noun

ice shelf (plural ice shelves)

  1. A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.

Questions about ice shelves

What is ice shelves the plural of?
Ice shelves is the plural of ice shelf.

Words near ice shelves in the dictionary

  1. ice scraper
  2. ice scrapers
  3. ice sheet
  4. ice sheets
  5. ice shelf
  6. ice shelves
  7. ice shove
  8. ice shoves
  9. ice show
  10. ice shows
  11. ice skate

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