| 释义 |
ice-borne, ppl. a.|ˈaɪsbɔən|
[f. ice n. + borne ppl. a.]
Borne by or on ice; transported (as a boulder) during the glacial epoch.
1850Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 8) xvi. 231 The line of coast..is strewed..with iceborne boulders, often 6 feet in diameter. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xi. (1860) 263, I suspected that these islands [the Azores] had been partly stocked by ice-borne seeds, during the Glacial epoch. |