Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glacier mouse

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables: glacier -mouse
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A ball of moss, often surrounding a rock, that moves across a glacier.

Example Sentences

"I call these mossy balls Jökla-mýs, literally "glacier mice," and you will have noted, Sir, that rolling stones can gather moss."
"Such glacier mice are more or less spheroidal mosses which lie unattached on the ice surface."
"Glacier mice can be composed of different moss species."

Etymology

Calque of Icelandic jökla-mýs. Coined by geologist Jón Eythórsson in 1950. The Icelandic term appears only in plural form.

Inflected Forms

glacier mice (plural)

Questions

What does glacier mouse mean?: A ball of moss, often surrounding a rock, that moves across a glacier.
Where does glacier mouse come from?: Calque of Icelandic jökla-mýs. Coined by geologist Jón Eythórsson in 1950. The Icelandic term appears only in plural form.

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