Lexic.us

Definition of Living rock

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

Definition of Living rock

1. Noun. Rock that is carved in situ. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Living Rock

living conditions living dead living death living donors living down living fossil living fossils living granite living hell living impaired

living in poverty living in sin living language living languages living quarters living rock (current term) living room living rooms living space living standard

living stone living substance living thing living tissue living together living trust living up living wage living will living wills

Literary usage of Living rock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... reach seven storeys), and communicate with one another by stairs cut out of the living rock. Light and air are introduced by means of vertical shafts ..."

2. Indian Architecture: Its Psychology, Structure, and History from the First by Ernest Binfield Havell (1913)
"... sculptor as well as mason, having acquired his skill at Elephanta, Ellora, and Ajanta in many generations from dealing with great masses of living rock. ..."

3. Foreign Topography; Or, An Encyclopedick Account, Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1828)
"The passage from the front measured 309 feet, the whole extent of which is cut out of the living rock. The chambers are numerous. ..."

4. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"The first generalisation which presents itself is that they are all of them rock-tombs, that is to say, hewn out of the living rock. Nowhere do we find any ..."

5. The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882)
"... of r. and verdure.c 30 and between the rocks о 382 living rock, like some, r 382 the gaunt r'sall were bare.. .A 422 brown rocks left bare 1122 cradles ..."

6. Letters from Italy, Describing the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Paintings by Anna Riggs Miller (1777)
"... cut out of the " living rock, of a fort not to be found in Italy, " but only in a quarry yet ..."

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