noun
Meaning 1
Rock that is carved in situ.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- The temple was hewed from the living rock.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: living stone
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
living rock
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noun
Meaning 2
A trovant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: living stone
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Pyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: living stone
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Synonym of living stone (“plant that resembles a rock”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: living stone
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: living granite, stone mimicry plant
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: succulent
noun
Meaning 6
usually 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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Ariocarpus fissuratus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cactus
History
Etymology
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