Any of a series of long, wavelike ridges or grooves formed on a snow surface by the wind, especially in polarplains, and surfaces of ice covered lakes/seas. These dunes of snow may be blown across the plains like wind-driven waves.
Origin
From German Sastruga, from Russian заструга
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