Definitions For Serac

Noun

SERAC (plural SERACs) Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped#adjective, shaped, pale#adjective, pale green#adjective, green, strongly flavoured cheese from switzerland made from skimmed#adjective, skimmed cowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea); schabziger, sapsago. It is usually eaten grate#verb, grated, mixed with butter#noun, butter, or in a fondue. (geography, glaciology) A sharp#adjective, sharp tower#noun, tower of ice#noun, ice formed by intersecting#adjective, intersecting crevasses of a glacier. from mid 19th c.

Alternative forms

sérac

Translations

French: sérac, m Catalan: serac, m Czech: sérak, m French: sérac, m German: Sérac, m Italian: seracco, m Polish: serak, m Portuguese: serac, m Russian: серак Spanish: serac, m

Etymology

From , from , seré, from , from serum, , whey, from . Sense 2 is from the resemblance of the towers of ice to the cheese, which tends to cleave into rectangular pieces.; Paris: w:john anthony galignani, galignani & co.; Boyveau, year=1874, page=lxxiii, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hw4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR73, column=2, oclc=922779628, passage=Sérac—Tower of a glacier ice-fall, ice-castle; name derived from a thin cheese which splits into rectangular pieces.