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pumice stone

pumice stone noun: a piece of pumice.

Noun

pumice stone (countable and uncountable, plural pumice stones)

  1. 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. Pumice (the substance).

pumice stone meaning in Tamil and Urdu

pumice stone in Tamil

நுரைக்கல், நொய்கல்

pumice stone in Urdu

جھانواں

Forms of pumice stone

pluralpumice stones
alternative formpumie stone
alternative formpumy stone

Questions about pumice stone

What does pumice stone mean?
Pumice stone means a piece of pumice.
What is pumice stone in Tamil?
Pumice stone in Tamil is நுரைக்கல், நொய்கல். See Pumice stone meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pumice stone?
Pumice stone is a noun.
What is the plural of pumice stone?
The plural of pumice stone is pumice stones.

Words near pumice stone in the dictionary

  1. pumicates
  2. pumicating
  3. pumice
  4. pumice raft
  5. pumice rafts
  6. pumice stone
  7. pumice stones
  8. pumiced
  9. pumicelike
  10. pumiceous
  11. pumicer

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