Word.ws English Dictionary

iceshelf

iceshelf is the alternative form 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.

Forms of iceshelf

pluraliceshelves

Questions about iceshelf

What is iceshelf the alternative form of?
Iceshelf is the alternative form of ice shelf.

Words near iceshelf in the dictionary

  1. icescape
  2. icescapes
  3. ICESCR
  4. icesheet
  5. icesheets
  6. iceshelf
  7. iceshelves
  8. iceskate
  9. iceskated
  10. iceskates
  11. iceskating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: iceshelf (page history and authors); ice shelf (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “iceshelf.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/iceshelf. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.