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floatstone

floatstone noun: a kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.

Noun

floatstone (countable and uncountable, plural floatstones)

  1. A kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.

Forms of floatstone

pluralfloatstones

Origin of floatstone

From float + stone.

Questions about floatstone

What does floatstone mean?
Floatstone means a kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.
What part of speech is floatstone?
Floatstone is a noun.
What is the plural of floatstone?
The plural of floatstone is floatstones.

Words near floatstone in the dictionary

  1. floatsam
  2. floatsams
  3. floatsome
  4. floatstick
  5. floatsticks
  6. floatstone
  7. floatstones
  8. floaty
  9. flob
  10. flobbed
  11. flobber

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