pack ice

English

Noun

pack ice (usually uncountable, plural pack ices)

A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice.
- 1986, Stephen Pyne, The Ice, page 4:
  […] the sea ices: pack ices, ice floes, ice rinds, ice hummocks ...; the coastal ices, fast ice, shore ices, glacial-ice, tongues, ice piedmonts; […]

Synonyms

ice pack
hummocky ice

Translations

large consolidated mass of floating sea ice

Chinese:
Mandarin: 浮冰 (zh) (fúbīng)
Danish: pakis (da) c
Finnish: ahtojää (fi)
French: banquise (fr)
German: Packeis (de) n

Norwegian:
Bokmål: pakkis (no) m

Nynorsk: pakkis m
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Swedish: packis c

Anagrams

ice pack, icepack

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