Information about the word floe (English → Esperanto: bankizo)

Synonyms: ice sheet, ice cap, ice mantle, ice‐floe, pack‐ice

Part of speechcommon noun
Pronunciation/fləʊ̯/
Hyphenationfloe
Pluralfloes

Usage samples

All 181 people on the larger floe near the capital city of Riga were removed by boat, and 42 people were rescued by helicopter from the smaller floe off the coast of Jūrmala, a nearby seaside resort town.

Translations

Dutchijsbank
Esperantobankizo
Faeroeseísflaki
GermanEisbank; Packeis
Portuguesebanquisa
Spanishbanquisa