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glacial lake outburst flood

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English

Syllables
glacial lake out-burst flood
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
2
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The rapid draining of a lake created by a dam of glacial ice, wherein the lake water undermines the glacier plugging the outlet, leading to a flood.

Etymology

From glacial lake + outburst flood.

Inflected Forms

glacial lake outburst floods (plural)

Derived Forms

GLOF

Synonyms

GLOF

Questions

What does glacial lake outburst flood mean?
The rapid draining of a lake created by a dam of glacial ice, wherein the lake water undermines the glacier plugging the outlet, leading to a flood.
Where does glacial lake outburst flood come from?
From glacial lake + outburst flood.

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