English Explanatory Dictionary

glacier mouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

glacier mouse glacier mice

Etymology

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

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