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Noun: glacial period
  1. Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface
    "the most recent glacial period was during the Pleistocene";
    - ice age, glacial epoch

Derived forms: glacial periods

Type of: geological period, period

Part of: prehistoric culture, prehistory

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