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

{{multiple images }} From {{bor, en, fr-CH, sérac, , kind of cheese; sharp tower of ice}}, from {{der, en, frp, sera}}, seré, from {{der, en, la, seraceum}}, from serum, , whey, from {{der, en, ine-pro, *ser-, , to flow, run}}. Sense 2 is from the resemblance of the towers of ice to the cheese, which tends to cleave into rectangular pieces.{{cite-book, title=A Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont, series=Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers, edition=15th rev., location=London, publisher=w:john murray (publisher), john murray, {{w, Albemarle Street}}; 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.}}

Anagrams

CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, sacre, scare

Is Serac a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
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Words with Friends
8

The word Serac is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

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