Definition of "water ice" [wa•ter ice]

• A dessert made of finely crushed ice that has been sweetened and flavored. (noun)

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• "If I wanted a shot at doing the climb today, I would have to climb this curtain of water ice with a single ice axe and general mountaineering crampons—not my preferred ice-climbing equipment."
• "Those four points you see in the equatorial regiontheyre clouds of water ice crystals over the four largest volcanoes in Tharsis."