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Definition

noun. a period of time when large areas of the earth were covered by ice.

Example Sentence

During the most recent ice age great sheets of ice covered most of Greenland.

More Example Sentences

Animals adapted to the ice age conditions.

Synonyms

glacial period; cold era; ice epoch

Antonyms

tropics

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