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Icicle

/ˈʌɪsəkəl/

A drooping, tapering shape of ice.

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    A drooping, tapering shape of ice.

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bundlenoun(countable) A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
stillicidenounWater falling in drops, especially in a row from the eaves of a roof, or from icicles or stalactites.
hair icenounA type of ice resembling fine, silky hair, forming on dead wood in the presence of certain fungi.
iceballnounA snack consisting of a ball of shaved ice with syrup.
gletcher icenounA type of floating ice formed from precipitation.
icefallnounA relatively rapid and turbulent flow of ice, somewhat analogous to a waterfall.
ice feathernounAn unusual feather-like form assumed by ice at the summits of mountains.
rimenounArchaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
thaw-dropnounA drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.
ice stormnounA storm in which rain freezes on contact with the ground to form a sheet of ice.
ice needlenouna small crystal of ice floating in the high atmosphere; a constituent of snow mist
icestormnounAlternative form of ice storm. [A storm in which rain freezes on contact with the ground to form a sheet of ice.]
sleetnoun(chiefly UK, Ireland, Northeastern US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
ice discnounSynonym of ice circle.
icebownounAn atmospheric phenomenon resembling a rainbow but associated with ice crystals.
iglunounArchaic form of igloo. [A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.]
ice tonguenoun(geology, glaciology) A long, narrow sheet of ice projecting out from a coastline, forming when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into a body of water.
hummocknounA small hill; a hillock; a knoll.
needle icenounNeedle-shaped columns of ice formed from groundwater by capillary action when the soil's surface temperature is above freezing and the air's surface temperature is below freezing.
trash icenoun(uncommon) Crumbled ice mixed with water.

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