alpine type of glacier

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   a glacier that moves down from a high valley

   SynonymsAlpine glacier

   Broaderglacier

Questions about alpine type of glacier

What does alpine type of glacier mean?

alpine type of glacier means "a glacier that moves down from a high valley".

What is another word for alpine type of glacier?

Close synonyms include Alpine glacier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alpine type of glacier a common word?

alpine type of glacier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.