Pingo

Quick meaning: Pingo is a noun meaning (geomorphology) A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year.

Meaning

(geomorphology) A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year.

More Meanings

1. (Sri Lanka, dated) A flexible pole supported on one shoulder, with a load suspended from each end.
2. (Sri Lanka, dated) A measure of weight equivalent to that which can be carried using a pingo, perhaps about 55 pounds (25 kilograms) (see the 2013 quotation).

Example Sentences

Ceremonial pingoes may also be silver tipped, as in the case of a beautiful example at the Embekke Devale[…].

Larger scale frost-heave features, such as pingoes, are rare because there is insufficient water available, generally, for the growth of large ice bodies.

The greatest variation in cover thickness, as determined from collapsed pingos, is in irregularly shaped pingos, or those with asymmetrically located ice-cores.

The Gańga-vaṇṣa minissu are the washers of the Oliya caste, who are not only a low caste, but come below the Paduvó and Berawáyó, and are the only caste who will carry the pingoes of the smiths.

Word Forms

• pingoes
• pingos

Synonyms for pingo

Depending on context, synonyms include hydrolaccolith, picul.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include palsa, pogonip, mogul, polygonboden, periglaciation, snowpit.

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