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- Swedish · borrowed frompipkrake
- English todaypipkrake
From Swedish pipkrake, from pip (“tube”) + krake (“thin, fine, weak”), coined by Swedish botanist Henrik Hesselman in 1907.
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pipkrake
Today it means: Needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not. Full definition →
Swedish pipkrake