| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sastruga |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sas·tru·ga |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s -str  g , sstr-, sästr- |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also zas·tru·ga ( z-strg, zä-) |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. sas·tru·gi (-g )
A long wavelike ridge of snow, formed by the wind and found on the polar plains. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Russian dialectal zastruga : za, beyond + struga, deep place into which one may fall; see sreu- in Appendix I.
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