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MENDENHALL GLACIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska
Synonyms:
Great Mendenhall Glacier; Mendenhall Glacier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
Piedmont glacier; Piedmont type of glacier (a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice)
Holonyms ("Mendenhall Glacier" is a part of...):
AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)