ice cave

noun

1. a cave containing ice that remains unmelted during all or most of the year.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice cave¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Which is why Ice Memory is funding the storing of the second sample core in an ice cave at minus 50C in the Concordia Research Station in Antarctica along with others from the Alps, the Andes, Greenland and elsewhere.

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Police said in their press release around 18:00 that an ice cave had collapsed.

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Some say she has been apprenticing as a cobbler in the Italian countryside; others, that she’s formed an ice cave—and won the trust of indigenous penguin tribes—in Antarctica.

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The big revelations start hitting before the opening credits here, as Danvers and Navarro bust into the ice cave system in the middle of a storm that looks formidable even by Ennis standards.

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It was filmed in an ice cave that isn’t on any standard maps, one she and Navarro are later told has whale bones frozen inside its ceiling.

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