Meanings
- not comparableOccurring between glaciations (colloquially known as ice ages).
Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.
2014, Antoinette Mannion, Global Environmental Change, page 71
plural interglacials
- The relatively warm period between glacial periods.
The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
- Proto-Italic*n̥ter
- Latininter
- Latininter-
- Englishinter-
- Englishglacial
- Englishinterglacial
Translations
Catalan interglacial
- interglacialoccurring between glaciations
Danish mellemistid
- mellemistidrelatively warm period between glacial periods
Finnish interglasiaali
- interglasiaalirelatively warm period between glacial periods
French interglaciaire, post-glaciaire
- interglaciaireoccurring between glaciations
- post-glaciaireoccurring between glaciations
German interglazial, Warmzeit
- interglazialoccurring between glaciations
- Warmzeitrelatively warm period between glacial periods
- Interglazialrelatively warm period between glacial periods
Hungarian interglaciális, interglaciális
- interglaciálisoccurring between glaciations
- interglaciálisrelatively warm period between glacial periods
Irish idiroighreach, tréimhse idiroighreach
- idiroighreachoccurring between glaciations
- tréimhse idiroighreachrelatively warm period between glacial periods
Vietnamese gian băng
- gian băngoccurring between glaciations
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
interglacial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interglacial
“interglacial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interglacial. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interglacial,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interglacial.
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