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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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Retracing the way out of the broken ice, we steered in a south-westerly direction, just above the line of serac and crevassed ice.
When a serac unexpectedly falls and instantly kills a climber, we are not fascinated, only touched by grief.
Whether a stone underfoot gave way, or whether the Admiral's voice brought down a serac of rotten wall, is not clear.
For us a serac is a big block or pinnacle of ice sticking up in the middle of the feature of a glacier called an icefall.
The main rotor struck a serac about 100 metres away from the serac on which the actor was standing.
For many hours a way was won through a mighty turmoil of serac and over innumerable crevasses with varied fortune.

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