floe
noun/fləʊ/
/fləʊ/
(also ice floe)
- a large area of ice, floating on the sea
- Small floes formed the major ice cover from August to December.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFloe is used after these nouns:- ice
Word Originearly 19th cent. (superseding flake in this sense): probably from Norwegian flo, from Old Norse fló ‘layer’.Want to learn more?
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