| 释义 |
ice cap
noun
1. : an ice bag shaped to be fitted to the head
2. : a cover of perennial ice and snow (as in the polar regions or on a mountain peak above the snow line); specifically : a glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land (as a plateau, or a large part of a continent) and flowing outward from its center
< the endless polar ice cap was running between eight and eighty feet thick — W.R.Anderson > |