serac

n. 冰塔

发音

UK /sɛˈɹæk/
其它
UK /ˈsɛɹæk/
其它
US /sɛˈɹæk/

词形变化

seracs 复数 seracs

别名

sérac

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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. 2.

    A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier.

词源

From Swiss French sérac (“kind of cheese; sharp tower of ice”), from Franco-Provençal sera, seré, from Latin seraceum, from serum (“whey”), from Proto-Indo-European *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.

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