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SEDIMENTARY ROCK

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Dictionary entry overview: What does sedimentary rock mean?

• SEDIMENTARY ROCK (noun)
The noun SEDIMENTARY ROCK has 1 sense:

1. rock formed from consolidated clay sediments

Familiarity information: SEDIMENTARY ROCK used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SEDIMENTARY ROCK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Rock formed from consolidated clay sediments

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Nouns denoting substances

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

rock; stone (material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sedimentary rock"):

argillite (a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages)

arenaceous rock (a sedimentary rock composed of sand)

argillaceous rock (a sedimentary rock formed from clay deposits)

rudaceous rock (a sedimentary rock formed of coarse-grained material)

slate (a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers)

limestone (a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals)

shale (a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay)

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