English Explanatory Dictionary

pipkrake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.

Word forms

pipkrake pipkrakes

Etymology

From Swedish pipkrake, from pip (“tube”) + krake (“thin, fine, weak”), coined by Swedish botanist Henrik Hesselman in 1907.

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