Usually means: Area surrounding glaciers, cold climate.
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  1. periglacial: Merriam-Webster
  2. periglacial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. periglacial: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Periglacial: Wordnik
  5. periglacial: Wiktionary
  6. periglacial: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. periglacial: Dictionary.com
  8. Periglacial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. periglacial: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. periglacial: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. periglacial: Canadian Soil Information System

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▸ adjective:  (geomorphology) Of or pertaining to the area around the edge of a glacier.

Similar:
glacial, englacial, supraglacial, deglacial, glaciological, glaciologic, glaciogenic, glaciofluvial, glaciolacustrine, glacionatant, more...

Opposite:
epiglacial, interglacial, postglacial

Types:
frost-heave, frost-wedging, frost-pitting, frost-shattering, more...

Phrases:
periglacial climate, more...

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Similar:
glacial, englacial, supraglacial, deglacial, glaciological, glaciologic, glaciogenic, glaciofluvial, glaciolacustrine, glacionatant, more...

Opposite:
epiglacial, interglacial, postglacial

Types:
frost-heave, frost-wedging, frost-pitting, frost-shattering, more...

Phrases:
periglacial climate, more...



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