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Meaning of living rock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Rock that is carved in situ.
    uncountable
  2. Pyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.
    countable, uncountable
  3. A trovant.
    countable, uncountable
  4. Synonym of living stone (“plant that resembles a rock”).
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“The temple was hewed from the living rock.”
“So that all men despised him in the streets, / He hewed the living rock, with sweat and tears,”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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