rock; stone




a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

"he threw a rock at me"

Type of:
  • natural object

Types:
  • achondrite
  • bedrock
  • boulder; bowlder
  • calculus; concretion
  • chondrite
  • clastic rock
  • crystal; crystallization
  • intrusion
  • outcrop; outcropping; rock outcrop
  • pebble
  • petrifaction
  • sill
  • stepping stone
  • tor
  • wall rock
  • whinstone; whin
  • xenolith


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