ICE MASS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A large mass of ice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("ice mass" is a kind of...):

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ice mass"):

glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)

berg; iceberg (a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier)

ice cap; icecap (a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak))

ice field (a large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) floating at sea)

floe; ice floe (a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea)