nivated

nivated

English

Adjective

nivated (comparative more nivated, superlative most nivated)

1. Eroded by nivation.
   • 1900, United States. Department of the Interior, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior (page 188)

     The nivated and glaciated areas shared the same snowfall and the same climatic conditions […]

   • 1916, Isaiah Bowman, The Andes of Southern Peru (page 289)

     […] since glacial striæ are wholly absent from nivated surfaces according to both Matthes' observations and my own.