LIVING ROCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does living rock mean? 

• LIVING ROCK (noun)
  The noun LIVING ROCK has 2 senses:

1. usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States

2. highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa

  Familiarity information: LIVING ROCK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVING ROCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ariocarpus fissuratus; living rock

Hypernyms ("living rock" is a kind of...):

cactus (any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines)

Holonyms ("living rock" is a member of...):

Ariocarpus; genus Ariocarpus (slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

living granite; living rock; stone mimicry plant

Hypernyms ("living rock" is a kind of...):

succulent (a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs)

Holonyms ("living rock" is a member of...):

genus Pleiospilos; Pleiospilos (perennial succulents of South Africa)