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A section of a garden made from decorative rocks and alpine plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rock garden
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: karesansui, Zen garden
A natural area where many seals breed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rock garden
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: garden
Etymology tree Medieval Latin roccabor.? Old English *rocc Early Medieval Latin rocca Anglo-Norman roquebor. Middle English rokke English rock Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English rockery From rock + -ery.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Belarusian:
альпі́йская го́рка
(alʹpíjskaja hórka)
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Bulgarian:
алпинеум
(alpineum)
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Chinese Mandarin:
假山
(jiǎshān)
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Czech:
skalka
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Dutch:
rotstuin
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Finnish:
kivipuutarha
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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French:
rocaille
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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German:
Steingarten
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Icelandic:
steinbeð
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Irish:
creig-ghairdín
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Irish:
carragán
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Japanese:
ロック ガーデン
(rokku gāden)
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Japanese:
石庭
(sekitei)
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Norwegian Bokmål:
steinbed
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Norwegian Bokmål:
fjellhage
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
steinbed
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
fjellhage
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Plautdietsch:
Steengoaden
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Polish:
skalniak
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Russian:
альпи́йская го́рка
(alʹpíjskaja górka)
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Spanish:
jardín de rocas
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks
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Spanish:
rocalla
— section of a garden made from decorative rocks