ice cap English

Meaning ice cap meaning

What does ice cap mean?

ice cap

— noun (= icecap) a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)

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What other words have the same or similar meaning as ice cap?

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icecap

ice carapace

ice mantle

ice cover

glacier cap

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But few saw, for instance, the Artic ice cap melting as rapidly as now seems to be the case.

Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.

Core samples from the Greenland ice cap, for example, show occasional sudden drops in temperature.