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Iceland (iou)



Iceland noun. Also Island. M16.
[See sense 2. Branch II directly from ICE noun + LAND noun1.]
I.
In full Iceland dog, (arch.) Iceland cur. A shaggy sharp-eared white dog, formerly in favour as a lap-dog in England. M16.
Used attrib. in the names of things associated with Iceland, an island republic in the N. Atlantic, near the Arctic Circle. L18.
Iceland falcon a usu. pale grey gyrfalcon from Iceland. Iceland gull a grey and white Arctic gull, Larus glaucoides. Iceland lichen, Iceland moss an Arctic and Alpine lichen, Cetraria islandica, which can be boiled to make an edible jelly. Iceland poppy an Arctic poppy, Papaver nudicaule, with leafless stems and white yellow-based petals; any of the garden poppies, with variously coloured flowers, derived from this or the related P. alpinum group, of European mountains. Iceland spar a transparent variety of calcite with strong double refraction.
II.
(iceland.) A country covered with ice; the realm of perpetual ice. M19.
Icelander noun a native or inhabitant of Iceland E17.
Ice'landish adjective Icelandic E18.