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This week's theme Words from geology This week's words yardang pingo scree inselberg karst Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Scree Dolomites, Italy (photo: Carlos Baquero) Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg scree PRONUNCIATION: (skree) MEANING: noun: Rock debris at the base or the side of a mountain. ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse skritha (landslide). USAGE: "The trail is well-defined, although there were a few spots where we had to scrabble up rocks and slide down scree." Charlie Anderson; New Zealand's A Knock-out; Calgary Herald (Canada); Jun 6, 2009. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

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