serac

Meaning

Noun

• Often sérac: a hard, cone-shaped, pale green, strongly flavoured cheese from Switzerland made from skimmed cowmilk and blue fenugreek (Trigonella caerulea (species)); Schabziger, Sapsago. It is usually eaten grated, mixed with butter, or in a fondue.
• A sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier.

Origin

• From , from Franco-Provençal sera, seré, from Latin seraceum, from serum, 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.