"glacier mouse" meaning in English

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          "text": "I call these mossy balls Jökla-mýs, literally \"glacier mice,\" and you will have noted, Sir, that rolling stones can gather moss.",
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          "ref": "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, →DOI, pages 60–65:",
          "text": "Such glacier mice are more or less spheroidal mosses which lie unattached on the ice surface.",
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          "text": "Glacier mice can be composed of different moss species.",
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        "A ball of moss, often surrounding a rock, that moves across a glacier."
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        "(usually in the plural) A ball of moss, often surrounding a rock, that moves across a glacier."
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