living rock

English

Noun

living rock (countable and uncountable, plural living rocks)

(uncountable) Rock that is carved in situ.
Synonym: living stone

The temple was hewed from the living rock.
- 1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Evarra And His Gods”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 163:
  So that all men despised him in the streets, / He hewed the living rock, with sweat and tears,
Any of various dwarf succulent plants that resemble stones.
Pyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.

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