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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An Arctic mound or conical hill, consisting of an outer layer of soil covering a core of solid ice.

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  1. n. geomorphology A conical mound with an ice core (that is, a mound of earth-covered ice), particularly if lasting more than a year; caused by permafrost uplift.

Etymologies

  1. From Greenlandic or Inuktitut pingu ("small hill"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Inuit pingu. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby Clean your penguins please! Really, Pro. Mar 18, 2011

  • Prolagus "Dirt" in Sassarese. Mar 18, 2011

  • mollusque A rock peak covered by ice but remaining distinguishable; a dome-shaped mound consisting of a layer of soil over a core of ice; a circular depression, frequently water-filled, thought to be the remains of such a mound formed during former periglacial conditions. Dec 31, 2007

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