LIVING ROCK
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)
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)
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; stone mimicry plant; living rock
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)
