OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 49319

serac

/sɛˈɹæk/
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serac
A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier.
Numerous blocks of ice, to which the name "serac" is given, covered the plain. These are large fragments of frozen snow, almost rectangular. They take their name from the resemblan…
Perhaps the finest part of it [the Lysjoch] is the grand sérac scenery of the Zwillinge Glacier. In August, 1876, a party of four, having missed the right track in crossing this pa…
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