Glacial Definition

glāshəl
adjective
Of or like ice or glaciers.
Webster's New World
Of or produced by a glacier or a glacial epoch or period.
Webster's New World
Freezing; frigid.
Glacial weather.
Webster's New World
As slow as the movement of a glacier.
Glacial progress.
Webster's New World
Pleistocene.
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(geology) Of the Pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers.

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Origin of Glacial

  • French from Old French icy from Latin glaciālis from glaciēs ice gel- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French glacial, from Latin glaciālis, from glaciēs (“ice”).

    From Wiktionary

Glacial Sentence Examples

  • The " northern soils," which are glacial deposits more or less redistributed by water, are much less fertile as a rule, and consist of all possible varieties from a tough boulder clay to loose sand.

  • Slates and fine-grained sandstones appear here freely through the glacial drift.

  • Across it, at its head, are the glacial passes which lead to the foot of the Baroghil.

  • The glacial era has left abundant evidences in the topography of the state.

  • In some of the larger valleys there are glacial terraces.

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