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permafrost
[< permanent + frost]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1957 quote.
Quotations
1742
[The frost is never out of the ground; how deep, we cannot be certain.]
1946
Permafrost . . . is a pressing geologic problem, for most of the North is characterized by it.
1957
This enemy has been with us always, but only in 1943 was given an English name: permafrost. The Russians call it vechnaia merzlota, or "perennially frozen ground."
1966
"Left-over ice pushed up by the spring break-up," explained Capt. Brinkie, "sitting on the permafrost; it'll stay there 'til freeze-up."