permafrozen
adjEtymology From perma- + frozen.
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permanently frozen
- Piece of cake? her mind screeched. Piece of ten-million-year-old permafrozen glacier, maybe.2006, Terri Farley, Phantom Stallion #21, page 210:
- Pingos form by the penetration of unfrozen but saturated sands to the surface through a layer of permafrozen ground.2001, Graham Taylor, R.A. Eggleton, Regolith Geology and Geomorphology, page 239:
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- With the very long winter, permafrozen soil, and low evaporation, the soil is waterlogged.1980, Robert Auty, Companion to Russian Studies: An Introduction to Russian History, page 11:
- Related terms
- permafrost