glacial landscape
- noun
- /ˈɡleɪʃəl ˈlændskeɪp/
- Specialized
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paisaje glacial
- The park features a beautiful glacial landscape, with frozen lakes and rocky outcrops shaped by ancient ice.
Examples
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The glacial landscape was characterized by U-shaped valleys and sharp mountain peaks.
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As we hiked through the glacial landscape, we admired the stunning ice formations around us.
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Early glaciations were more extensive than later events, leaving a diverse glacial landscape.
Academic text (1999)
How Cold
- Literature
7
3.2
- Specialized
- Specialized
14
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area of land shaped by glaciers' is directly and compositionally derived from 'glacial' (relating to glaciers) + 'landscape' (an expanse of land). This adjective+noun combination follows a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun glacial landscape comes from the image of huge, slow rivers of ice called glaciers moving across the landscape, cutting rock and pushing stones to make wide, smooth valleys and lakes. That's why glacial landscape means 'an area shaped by glaciers'.