bergfield

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noun

An expanse of ice covered with icebergs.

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Meanings

nounbergfield (plural bergfields)

plural bergfields

  1. An expanse of ice covered with icebergs.

    Bergfields, collections of grounded deep-draft floebergs (>25 m keel depths) and ice-island fragments, have been forming in the northeast Chukchi Sea since 1966 and probably earlier.

    1983, John Thomas Andrews, Glacial Marine Sediments and Sedimentation: An Annotated Bibliography

Origin

From berg + field.

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APA

bergfield. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bergfield

MLA

“bergfield.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bergfield. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bergfield,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bergfield.

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