interglacial

inter- +‎ glacial

• Rhymes: -eɪʃəl

interglacial (not comparable)

1. Occurring between glaciations (colloquially known as ice ages).
   • 2014, Antoinette Mannion, Global Environmental Change, page 71:

     Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.

• interglacial optimum

interglacial (plural interglacials)

1. The relatively warm period between glacial periods.
   • 2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:

     The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.

• interstadial

• antiallergic

interglacial (plural interglaciales)

1. interglacial