Meaning & use
ice cap
A thick, permanent layer of ice and snow covering a large area of land, especially near the poles.
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The Greenland ice cap holds enough frozen water to raise sea levels significantly if it melted.
Satellite images show the polar ice cap shrinking each summer.
A note on using this word
Ice cap refers to a dome-shaped mass smaller than an ice sheet, though the two terms are sometimes used loosely in everyday speech.
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