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suiseki

suiseki noun: a Japanese artform in which attractively shaped rocks and stones are mounted and displayed.

suiseki: a Japanese artform in which attractively shaped rocks and stones are mounted and displayed
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Noun

suiseki (countable and uncountable, plural suisekis)

  1. A Japanese artform in which attractively shaped rocks and stones are mounted and displayed.
    • Metamorphic rocks such as crystalline schists, gneisses, quartzite, slate, etc. are most popularly used as garden stones and suisekis, but some other kinds of stone, igneous and sedimentary in origin, are also collected,1967, 大貫忠三, page 51
    • The same love for natural form expressed in bonsai is also found in suiseki, or stone viewing, long associated with bonsai in Japanese tradition.1988, United States. Agricultural Research Service, The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum of the U.S. National Arboretum

Forms of suiseki

pluralsuisekis

Origin of suiseki

From Japanese 水石 (suiseki, literally “water stone”).

Questions about suiseki

What does suiseki mean?
Suiseki means a Japanese artform in which attractively shaped rocks and stones are mounted and displayed.
What part of speech is suiseki?
Suiseki is a noun.
What is the plural of suiseki?
The plural of suiseki is suisekis.

Words near suiseki in the dictionary

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  2. Suir
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  4. Suires
  5. suis
  6. suiseki
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  8. suist
  9. suists
  10. Suisun
  11. Suisun City

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