'Living rock' definitions:
Definition of 'living rock'
From: WordNet
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 [syn: living rock, Ariocarpus fissuratus]
noun
Highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey- green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa [syn: living granite, living rock, stone mimicry plant]
Definition of 'Living rock'
From: GCIDE
- Living \Liv"ing\ (l[i^]v"[i^]ng), a. [From Live, v. i.]
- 1. Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle. " Living hope. " --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. "Living light." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live. [1913 Webster]
- Then on the living coals wine they pour. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Living force. See Vis viva, under Vis.
- Living gale (Naut.), a heavy gale.
- Living rock or Living stone, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. " I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut out of the living rock." --Moore.
- The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive. [1913 Webster]