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floefloe /fləʊ $ floʊ/ noun [countable]  floeOrigin: 1800-1900 Probably from Norwegian flo ‘flat layer’ - But there were no ice floes around today.
- Eider ducks bobbed offshore, dodging the ice floes.
- Out on the harbor the small blue ice floes were turning pink.
- There the whales deliberately tilt the floes so that seals slide off into the water and into the jaws of their attackers.
- They have become so successful that even former seal hunters now guide travelers on the ice floes.
- Who would ever have imagined satellites entirely covered with ice floes, or volcanos spurting sulfur a hundred kilometers into space?
NOUN► ice· But there were no ice floes around today.· Who would ever have imagined satellites entirely covered with ice floes, or volcanos spurting sulfur a hundred kilometers into space?· Eider ducks bobbed offshore, dodging the ice floes.· I saw old men jumping from one closing terminal to another, like ice floes in a river.· They have become so successful that even former seal hunters now guide travelers on the ice floes.· Out on the harbor the small blue ice floes were turning pink. an ice floe |