pipkrake
pipkrake noun: needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.
Noun
pipkrake (countable and uncountable, plural pipkrakes)
- Needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.
- The most widespread and familiar example of this process is that associated with the growth of needle ice or pipkrake (Figure 5.15), needles of clear ice commonly exceeding 5 cm in length. Growth of pipkrake is favoured by supercooling of the soil in conditions of marked radiative heat loss from...1979, E. Derbyshire, Geomorphological Processes, Routledge, →ISBN, page 208
Forms of pipkrake
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Origin of pipkrake
From Swedish pipkrake, from pip (“tube”) + krake (“thin, fine, weak”), coined by Swedish botanist Henrik Hesselman in 1907.
Questions about pipkrake
- What does pipkrake mean?
- Pipkrake means needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.
- What part of speech is pipkrake?
- Pipkrake is a noun.
- What is the plural of pipkrake?
- The plural of pipkrake is pipkrakes.
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