Jul. 29th, 2009

nivation

Jul. 29th, 2009 08:00 am
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nivation - n., erosion beneath a snowbank, resulting either from the action of frost freezing and thawing or from runoff of meltwater.


Pronounced nih-VAY-shun. Coined in the late 1890s from Latin niv-, the stem form of nix, snow.

---L.
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