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living rock

living rock noun: rock that is carved in situ.

Noun

living rock (countable and uncountable, plural living rocks)

  1. (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
    Synonyms:
    living stone
  2. A trovant.
    Synonyms:
    living stone
  3. Pyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.
    Synonyms:
    living stone
  4. Synonym of living stone (“plant that resembles a rock”).
    Synonyms:
    living stone

living rock meaning in Tamil

living rock in Tamil

புவியுடன் ஒட்டிய பாறை

Synonyms of living rock

Forms of living rock

pluralliving rocks

Questions about living rock

What does living rock mean?
Living rock means rock that is carved in situ.
What is living rock in Tamil?
Living rock in Tamil is புவியுடன் ஒட்டிய பாறை. See Living rock meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is living rock?
Living rock is a noun.
What is the plural of living rock?
The plural of living rock is living rocks.

Words near living rock in the dictionary

  1. living quarters
  2. living rent free in someone's head
  3. living rent free in someone's mind
  4. living rent-free in someone's head
  5. living rent-free in someone's mind
  6. living rock
  7. living rocks
  8. living room
  9. living room group
  10. living room groups
  11. living rooms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: living rock (page history and authors); living rock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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