pack ice

English

Noun

pack ice (usually uncountable, plural pack ices)

1. A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice.
   • 1986, Stephen Pyne, The Ice, page 4:

     […] the sea ices: pack ices, ice floes, ice rinds, ice hummocks ...; the coastal ices, fast ice, shore ices, glacial-ice, tongues, ice piedmonts; […]

Synonyms

• ice pack
• hummocky ice

Translations

large consolidated mass of floating sea ice

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浮冰 (zh) (fúbīng)

• Danish: pakis (da) c
• Finnish: ahtojää (fi)
• French: banquise (fr)
• German: Packeis (de) n
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pakkis (no) m

  Nynorsk: pakkis m

• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: па́ковый лёд (ru) m (pákovyj ljod), пак (ru) m (pak)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: packis c

Anagrams

• ice pack, icepack