单词 | finger lake |
释义 | > as lemmasfinger lake finger lake n. any long narrow lake in a glaciated valley.In quot. 1883, used to denote a group of lakes in New York State now called the Finger Lakes (as a proper name). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > long and narrow finger lake1883 ribbon lake1903 1883 T. C. Chamberlin in 3rd Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1881–2 348 The moraine across New York is held to mark the limit (1) of a small glacial lobe accompanying the Genesee Valley, (2) of a much broader but less elongate one, covering the territory of the divergent finger lakes. 1904 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 15 453 Its northern half is occupied by a lake which presents within a space which can be embraced in one view the characters of a finger lake in an exaggerated degree. 1931 C. C. Carter Landforms & Life xix. 122 Ten or more..radial streams and valleys may be counted and named from the map; most of them expand into finger lakes. 2015 B. Fogle Barefoot at Lake 121 Lake Chemong is a finger lake, ten miles long, created by glaciers at the end of the last ice age. < as lemmas |
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