OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28689

scree

/skɹiː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
canchal • pedregal
Loose stony debris on a slope.
Struggling down the slope, There's not much hope. I begin to try to ride the scree But the rocks are tumbling all around me.
To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick.
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