The Collaborative International Dictionary
ice-free \ice-free\ adj. free of ice and open to travel; -- of water routes; as, an ice-free channel in the river.
Wiktionary
a. Free of all ice.
WordNet
adj. free of ice and open to travel; "an ice-free channel in the river"
Usage examples of "ice-free".
Does it do so by chance or might the continent indeed have been entirely ice-free recently enough for the cartographers of a lost civilization to have mapped it?
The term ice-free corridor is applied to a relatively narrow strip of unglaciated land between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice.
Or shall we think again about the implications of Hapgood’s theory of earth-crust displacement which allows the southern continent to have been in the ice-free condition depicted by Buache as little as 15,000 years ago?
Dolohov's Red Banner Fleet units were putting to sea from ice-free Murmansk - troop-carriers and their submarine and destroyer escorts.
The best recent evidence suggests that Queen Maud Land, and the neighbouring regions shown on the map, passed through a long ice-free period which may not have come completely to an end until about six thousand years ago.
U-shaped valleys and other glacial evidence closely resemble the ice-free features of the Cascade mountains in the northwestern United States.
Last week, the wooly mammoth herds started migrating south for the winter, through the ice-free corridor.