Glaciologist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A scientist who studies glaciers.
"To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres."
Example
More examples"To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres."
Etymology
From glaciology + -ist.
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