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Meaning of glacier mouse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

plural-normally

Examples

“I call these mossy balls Jökla-mýs, literally "glacier mice," and you will have noted, Sir, that rolling stones can gather moss.”
“Such glacier mice are more or less spheroidal mosses which lie unattached on the ice surface.”
“Glacier mice can be composed of different moss species.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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