continental glacier

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   a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice

   Broaderglacier

   Narrowerpolar glacier

Questions about continental glacier

What does continental glacier mean?

continental glacier means "a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice".

Is continental glacier a common word?

continental 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.