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glaciered

  • a word derived from glacier.
    glacier
    noun
    an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.

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Up here in the rarefied realm of Mount Rainier’s alpine meadows, the mountain, glaciered and magnificent, seems close enough to touch.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2014

Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Turning to look across the valley of the Wenatchee, she saw the blue and glaciered crests of the Chelan mountains, and behind her, over the neck of a loftier height, loomed other white domes.

From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson

Far away the forest-crowned mountain tops pierced the clouds and hid from sight the snows and glaciered sides.

From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by John Maclean

The country is a rugged wilderness of tumbled ranges, grown with magnificent forests above which rise snowy and glaciered summits.

From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard