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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Rock composed of sharp-angled fragments embedded in a fine-grained matrix.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In geology, a conglomerate in which the fragments, instead of being rounded or water-worn, are angular. The term is most frequently applied to volcanic masses made up of fragments which have become consolidated into rock before becoming rounded by friction against each other or by the action of water.

Wiktionary

  1. n. geology A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Geol.) A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand

Etymologies

  1. From Italian breccia, from Germanic. (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian, of Germanic origin; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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