What does glacier mean?

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mrluyen
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What does glacier mean?

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What does GLACIER in “glacier sundae” mean? I found in the dictionary that SUNDAE refers to ICE-CREAM, but what about “glacier”? Please help.

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Re: What does glacier mean?

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glacier.

- A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting and sublimation.

- a mass of ice, formed from the snow on mountains.
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Re: What does glacier mean?

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In Iran we call " Iced Ice-cream " to "glacier sundae"
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