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Term: Ice tongue
Definition: Any narrow extension of a glacier or ice shelf, such as a projection floating in the sea or an outlet glacier of an ice cap.
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Term: Ice tongue
Definition: Synonymous with glacier tongue, which is the preferred term.
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Term: Ice tongue
Definition: See glacier tongue: The long slender part of a valley glacier that is subject to net ablation.
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