Meanings
plural living rocks
- uncountableRock that is carved in situ.
The temple was hewed from the living rock.
1 more example
So that all men despised him in the streets, / He hewed the living rock, with sweat and tears,
1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Evarra And His Gods”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 163Synonyms: living stone
- countableuncountablePyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.
Synonyms: living stone
Synonyms & antonyms
nounRock that is carved in situ.
nounA trovant.
nounPyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.
nounSynonym of living stone (“plant that resembles a rock”).
More synonyms by meaning
nounusually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
nounhighly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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