stadial

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Pertaining to a glacial stade.
2. adjective Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
3. noun A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.

Similar words

stalactic stational stagelike deglacial glacial stagnational statary stavropegial stelar stratic

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