ice cap
noun
1
: a cover of perennial ice and snow
specifically : a glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center
2
: an ice bag shaped to the head
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Those expeditions include climbing 18,510 feet to the snow summit of Mount Elbrus in Russia and attempting to cross the Greenland ice cap. 
Tamara Hardingham-gill, CNN, 22 June 2022 As the island’s ice cap melts, the land is becoming more habitable for trees, of which there are four native species, most significantly the rowan or mountain ash. Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022 In 1930, a young Englishman and his crew set off on an expedition to Greenland’s ice cap, dog-sledding through blizzards and dodging crevasses. Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022 Both Dettifoss and our next destination, Asbyrgi, 20 miles north, are part of the northern branch of Vatnajokull National Park, which includes much more inaccessible wilderness, including the Vatnajokull ice cap in southeast Iceland. New York Times, 3 June 2022 The melting polar ice cap is also leaving the once impassable Arctic Ocean ice-free for longer periods, creating new vulnerabilities for the North American continent. Paul Vieira, WSJ, 20 June 2022 On the surface, the plan behind MOSAiC is simple enough: allow the Transpolar Drift, a kind of conveyor belt that moves ice across the ice cap, to carry the Polarstern straight through the center of the Arctic during the long polar night. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022 The ice cap that covers Antarctica isn’t a rigid whole. Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 May 2022 That ice sheet is the second largest in the world, behind Antarctica, and accounts for the vast majority of the polar ice cap. Cassidy Randall, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2020 See More
Tamara Hardingham-gill, CNN, 22 June 2022 As the island’s ice cap melts, the land is becoming more habitable for trees, of which there are four native species, most significantly the rowan or mountain ash. Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022 In 1930, a young Englishman and his crew set off on an expedition to Greenland’s ice cap, dog-sledding through blizzards and dodging crevasses. Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022 Both Dettifoss and our next destination, Asbyrgi, 20 miles north, are part of the northern branch of Vatnajokull National Park, which includes much more inaccessible wilderness, including the Vatnajokull ice cap in southeast Iceland. New York Times, 3 June 2022 The melting polar ice cap is also leaving the once impassable Arctic Ocean ice-free for longer periods, creating new vulnerabilities for the North American continent. Paul Vieira, WSJ, 20 June 2022 On the surface, the plan behind MOSAiC is simple enough: allow the Transpolar Drift, a kind of conveyor belt that moves ice across the ice cap, to carry the Polarstern straight through the center of the Arctic during the long polar night. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022 The ice cap that covers Antarctica isn’t a rigid whole. Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 May 2022 That ice sheet is the second largest in the world, behind Antarctica, and accounts for the vast majority of the polar ice cap. Cassidy Randall, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1816, in the meaning defined at sense 2
Kids Definition
ice cap
noun
: a large more or less level glacier flowing outward in all directions from its center