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CONTINENTAL GLACIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("continental glacier" is a kind of...):
glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "continental glacier"):
polar glacier (a glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles)