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waterworn

waterworn adjective: worn or smoothed by the action of water erosion.

Adjective

waterworn (comparative more waterworn, superlative most waterworn)

  1. Worn or smoothed by the action of water erosion.
    • waterworn stones
    • In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming “streams of stones.” […] The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted […]1845, Charles Darwin, chapter 9, in Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 2nd edition, London: John...

Forms of waterworn

comparativemore waterworn
superlativemost waterworn
alternative formwater-worn

Origin of waterworn

From water + worn.

Questions about waterworn

What does waterworn mean?
Waterworn means worn or smoothed by the action of water erosion.
What part of speech is waterworn?
Waterworn is an adjective.

Words near waterworn in the dictionary

  1. waterworks
  2. waterworld
  3. waterworlds
  4. waterworm
  5. waterworms
  6. waterworn
  7. waterwort
  8. Waterworth
  9. Waterworths
  10. waterworthy
  11. waterworts

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