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pipkrakes

pipkrakes is the plural of pipkrake.

Meaning of pipkrake

Noun

pipkrake (countable and uncountable, plural pipkrakes)

  1. 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

Questions about pipkrakes

What is pipkrakes the plural of?
Pipkrakes is the plural of pipkrake.

Words near pipkrakes in the dictionary

  1. Pipitones
  2. pipits
  3. pipkin
  4. pipkins
  5. pipkrake
  6. pipkrakes
  7. pipless
  8. pipobroman
  9. pipofezine
  10. pipoid
  11. pipoids

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