scree

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

scree, n. 

 A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky débris.  Southey.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scree, n. (in sing. or pl.)
1 small loose stones.
2 a mountain slope covered with these.

Etymology

prob. back-form. f. screes (pl.) ult. f. ON skritha landslip, rel. to skr{iacute}tha glide

THESAURUS

scree

aa, abyssal rock, alluvion, alluvium, basalt, bedrock, block lava, brash, breccia, conglomerate, crag, debris, deposit, detritus, diluvium, drift, druid stone, festooned pahoehoe, gneiss, granite, igneous rock, lava, limestone, living rock, loess, magma, mantlerock, metamorphic rock, monolith, moraine, pahoehoe, pillow lava, porphyry, pudding stone, regolith, rock, ropy lava, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, sediment, sedimentary rock, shelly pahoehoe, silt, sinter, stone, talus, tufa, tuff