nivated

English

Adjective

nivated (comparative more nivated, superlative most nivated)

  1. Eroded by nivation.
    • 1900, United States. Department of the Interior, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior (page 188)
      The nivated and glaciated areas shared the same snowfall and the same climatic conditions []
    • 1916, Isaiah Bowman, The Andes of Southern Peru (page 289)
      [] since glacial striæ are wholly absent from nivated surfaces according to both Matthes' observations and my own.
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