Word Study
scree
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.
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, tuffFor further exploring for "scree" in Webster Dictionary Online