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Webster 1913 Edition

Subglacial

Sub-gla′cial

,

Adj.

Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier;

as,

subglacial

streams

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Definition 2024

subglacial

subglacial

English

Adjective

subglacial ‎(not comparable)

Formed, or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice
- 1836 Edward Charlesworth - The Magazine of Natural History
  It is also this melting beneath the ice (subglacial, suppose we call it) which loosens the ice from the ground, . . .

Antonyms

supraglacial

Derived terms

subglacial duct
subglacial lake
subglacial rill
subglacial stream
subglacial volcano