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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pumice stone en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A piece of pumice.
    • in the midst a little riuer plaide / Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine / With gentle murmure, that his course they did restraine. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  2. (countable, uncountable) Pumice (the substance).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pumy stone alternative lexicographic
pumice stones Number=Plur lexicographic
pumie stone alternative lexicographic

Translations (11)

mt ħaffiefa (piece of pumice or collective noun) · es pómez (piece of pumice or collective noun) · de Bimsstein (piece of pumice or collective noun) · tr ponza (piece of pumice or collective noun) · es jal (piece of pumice or collective noun) · tr sünger taşı (piece of pumice or collective noun) · es piedra pómez (piece of pumice or collective noun) · pl pumeks (piece of pumice or collective noun) · es pumita (piece of pumice or collective noun) · is vikurkol (piece of pumice or collective noun) · el ελαφρόπετρα (piece of pumice or collective noun)