glacier mouse
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English
Etymology
Calque of Icelandic jökla-mýs. Coined by geologist Jón Eythórsson in 1950. The Icelandic term appears only in plural form.
Noun
glacier mouse (plural glacier mice)
- (usually in the plural) A ball of moss, often surrounding a rock, that moves across a glacier.
- 1950, Jón Eythórsson, “Jökla-mýs”, in Journal of Glaciology, volume 1, number 9, , page 503:
- I call these mossy balls Jökla-mýs, literally "glacier mice," and you will have noted, Sir, that rolling stones can gather moss.
- 2014, James H. Dickson, Robert E. Johnson, “Mosses and the beginning of plant succession on the Walker Glacier, southeastern Alaska”, in Lindbergia, volume 37, number 2, , pages 60–65:
- Such glacier mice are more or less spheroidal mosses which lie unattached on the ice surface.