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pumice stones

pumice stones is the plural of pumice stone.

Meaning of pumice stone

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).

Questions about pumice stones

What is pumice stones the plural of?
Pumice stones is the plural of pumice stone.

Words near pumice stones in the dictionary

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

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