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ice age

noun [C]
 
 
(specialized glacial period)

Definition

a time in the past when the temperature was very cold and glaciers (= large masses of ice) covered large parts of the earthPrehistory
(Definition of ice age noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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