reglaciate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ glaciate

Verb[edit]

reglaciate (third-person singular simple present reglaciates, present participle reglaciating, simple past and past participle reglaciated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To glaciate again.
    • 2013, Steve Webb, Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna[1]:
      There were a series of smaller temperature fluctuations before Antarctica once again began to reglaciate ca. 12Ma as temperatures dropped below 2°C.