| 释义 |
nie·ve pen·i·ten·te
\nēˈāvāˌpenəˈtentā, ˈnyāv-\ noun
(plural nie·ves peniten·tes \-vās...tās\)
Etymology: Spanish, literally, penitent snow; from the illusion of kneeling human figures
: a jagged sometimes curved pinnacle of ice or névé produced by uneven melting of a snowbank or of the surface of a glacier; also : an assemblage of such pinnacles — compare serac |