Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
scree .
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- noun Plural form of
scree .
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Examples
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It was on that same morning that the news reached Cliff Castle, where similar stories had floated about witches and warlocks having taken possession of the shivering hills, where the slatey rocks were always falling, and forming what the country people called screes, which, at a distance, when wet and shiny, looked in the sunshine like cascades descending from on high.
The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First George Manville Fenn 1870
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ECOLOGY: Casuarina junghuhniana is wholely tropical in distribution, and is a native of highlands in Indonesia where it pioneers deforested lands such as screes (rocky slopes) and grasslands, and in disturbed areas it replaces mixed mountain forest plant communities (NAS 1984).
Chapter 8 1996
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Casuarina junghuhniana is wholely tropical in distribution, and is a native of highlands in Indonesia where it pioneers deforested lands such as screes (rocky slopes) and grasslands, and in disturbed areas it replaces mixed mountain forest plant communities (NAS 1984).
Chapter 6 1990
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My Huntress helped as she could and tried to keep our ascent steady, but even one entirely unschooled in the nuances of human expression and the delicate changes in inflection that betray our thoughts and feelings would have had little difficulty in discerning her frustration as I tripped and stumbled my way up rocky screes and along the narrow goat trails that served as paths.
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The misty moorland--Beowulf, lines 161-162 ...up steep screes, by scant tracks
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
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The misty moorland--Beowulf, lines 161-162 ...up steep screes, by scant tracks
Old English gods and myths: Eotens Carla 2010
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Foreground montane forest disturbed by clearance for grazing; midground rocky screes inhositable to trees; background the densely forested slopes of Volcan Baru, Panama.
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The misty moorland--Beowulf, lines 161-162 ...up steep screes, by scant tracks
Archive 2010-08-01 Carla 2010
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Below is the most precipitous gulf into the head of Wasdale, but across the way is the pyramidal shape of Great Gable with its crimson screes and crags so sensationally sited that the view in the camera viewfinder suggests they are only yards away.
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The misty moorland--Beowulf, lines 161-162 ...up steep screes, by scant tracks
Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010
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