# pipkrake

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.

## Etymology
From Swedish pipkrake, from pip (“tube”) + krake (“thin, fine, weak”), coined by Swedish botanist Henrik Hesselman in 1907.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pipkrake