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GLACIAL SCRATCH

Specialty Definition: GLACIAL SCRATCH

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Geography

One of the series of long, delicate, finely cut, commonly straight and parallel furrows or lines inscribed on a bed rock surface by the rasping and rubbing of rock fragments embedded at the base of a moving glacier, usually oriented in the direction of ice movement. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GLACIAL SCRATCH

Language Translations for "GLACIAL SCRATCH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skurestribe (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gletsjerkras (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

uurre (furrow, groove). (various references)

   

French

  

strie glaciaire (glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), marque glaciaire (glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

German

  

glaziale Schürfmarken (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), glaziale Kratzer (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γραμμή προστριβής παγετώνα (striation), απόξεση παγετώνα (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Italian

  

striature glaciali (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acialglay atchscray

   

Portuguese

  

estrias glaciares (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

grieta glaciar (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), fisura glaciar (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

räffla (chamfer, channel, furrow, groove, knurl, mill, rib, rifle, rifling), isräffla (drift scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GLACIAL SCRATCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-c-g-h-i-l-l-r-s-t"

-4 letters: cascarilla.

-5 letters: catchalls.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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