Definitions for scree

scree scree

Spelling: [skree]
IPA: /skri/

Scree is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in scree (ceers).

Definitions for scree

noun

  1. a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.

Origin of scree

First recorded in 1775-85, scree is from the Old Norse word skritha landslide

Examples for scree

scree: the dbris of decaying rocks, forming a talus on the lower parts of a mountain.

It is too steep for turf; it is grey with marl, and patchy where scree of flint and chalk has run and found a lodgment.

It may, however, be recognised by its liberal output of scree.

What followed in that hurly-burly—that mad scramble through brake and thicket, down crag and scree—is impossible to tell.

On examining the other side there was no trace of moraine; there was scree in places, but a great deal of the tuff was uncovered.

What followed in that hurly-burly—that mad scramble through brake and thicket, down crag and scree—cannot be written.

Outside the lower end of each large transverse glen there is a scree of sedimentary matter.

Then we buried it deep under the big pile of scree on my hill.

They set off and Festing noticed Helen's confidence on the scree.

They walked down slowly, him leaning on her arm like an old man, steps faltering in the scree on the slope.

Word Value for scree
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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