anteglacial

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adjective

Occurring before a glacial period.

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Meanings

adjectiveanteglacial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring before a glacial period.

    I followed it for a time—to the delta and the swamps, and at last to the flashing sea where that great beast Abaia, carried from the farther shores of the universe in anteglacial days, wallows until the moment comes for him and his kind to devour the continents.

    1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 127

Origin

From ante- + glacial.

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APA

anteglacial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anteglacial

MLA

“anteglacial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anteglacial. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anteglacial,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anteglacial.

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