glacier mouse

短语

词形变化

glacier mice 复数 glacier mice

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A ball of moss, often surrounding a rock, that moves across a glacier.

词源

Calque of Icelandic jökla-mýs. Coined by geologist Jón Eythórsson in 1950. The Icelandic term appears only in plural form.

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