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Definition of Icecap
1. Noun. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
Definition of Icecap
1. Noun. A permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, e.g. in Earth's polar zones. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Icecap
1. a covering of ice and snow [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Icecap
Literary usage of Icecap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"Submergence produced by a Polar icecap.—There is one possible means by which a
change might have been produced in the position of the sea-level without any ..."
2. Geology for Students and General Readers: Physical Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1880)
"Submergence produced by a Polar icecap.—There is one possible means by which a
change might have been produced in the position of the sea-level without any ..."
3. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"SURFACE SPACE IN icecap.—The second of two " 'UUh submarines ... They ed 515
miles under ice and penetrated beneath icecap to between 40 and 50 miles. ..."
4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"Evidently at that time there was no polar icecap, and therefore no arctic plants.
At the end of the Pliocene, the vegetation shows a climate not greatly ..."
5. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"all the length of the Labrador; as elsewhere, they may be used to determine the
directions in which the massive icecap flowed. Until the year 1900 striae ..."
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