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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
living rock en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Rock that is carved in situ.
The temple was hewed from the living rock.
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 163:
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(countable, uncountable) A trovant.
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(countable, uncountable) Pyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.
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(countable, uncountable) Synonym of living stone (“plant that resembles a rock”).
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live rock
Synonyms
living stone · living stone · living stone · living stone