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Noun Concept
Categories: Oceanography, Sea ice
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drift ice  pack ice  Drift-ice  drifting ice  pack-ice
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Masses of ice floating in the open sea WordNet 3.0
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Masses of ice floating in the open sea WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object. Wikipedia
Floating sea ice Wikipedia Disambiguation
Sea ice that is not attached to land but rather moves on the sea surface in response to wind and ocean currents Wikidata
Large areas of floating ice, usually occurring in polar seas, consisting of separate pieces that have become massed together. OmegaWiki
One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents. Wiktionary
Detached, floating slabs of ice. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
ice
ice floe
HAS INSTANCE
West Ice
DIFFERENT FROM
shelf ice
fast ice
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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drift ice
Wikipedia
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drift ice
Wikidata
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drift ice
Wiktionary
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drift ice
OmegaWiki
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pack ice
Wikipedia Redirections
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Drift-ice, drifting ice, pack-ice, pack ice, Packed ice, Packice

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