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What is a serac?

What is a serac? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese from Switzerland made from skimmed cowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea); Schabziger, Sapsago. It is usually eaten grated, mixed with butter, or in a fondue.
  2. (geography (glaciology)) A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier. [from mid 19th c.]
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There's a passage to the right, but it's under a huge serac that teeters at the end of a glacier, waiting for the next slight shift of ice to send it tumbling.
For many hours a way was won through a mighty turmoil of serac and over innumerable crevasses with varied fortune.
Whether a stone underfoot gave way, or whether the Admiral's voice brought down a serac of rotten wall, is not clear.
When a serac unexpectedly falls and instantly kills a climber, we are not fascinated, only touched by grief.
The region was one of serac where the glacier was puckered up, folded and crushed.
It is heavily crevassed, as though it once formed the serac portion of a glacier.

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