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pingo
noun pingos, pingoes
    1. A large cone-shaped mound with a core of ice formed by the upward expansion of freezing water surrounded by permafrost.
    2. The lake formed when such a structure melts.
Etymology: 1920s: Eskimo, meaning ‘conical hill'.



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