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ICE MASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
