Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A carving or line drawing on rock, especially one made by prehistoric people.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A carving on or in stone; a rock-carving.
Wiktionary
- n. A rock carving, especially one made in prehistoric times
WordNet 3.0
- n. a carving or line drawing on rock (especially one made by prehistoric people)
Examples
“About five hectares have been cleared in the zone covered of lush vegetation finding evidences as the petroglyph, which is a stone with engravings and geometric designs that inhabitants denominate the mysterious stone of La Palma.”
“Unfortunately this was a day of a huge windstorm, cold gusts to sixty knots or so, so the outdoor activities we'd planned--- aerial tram, petroglyph trail--- had to be canceled in favor of things we could do indoors.”
“Stone circles and other petroglyph sites are located in the area.”
“After getting our fresh produce for the stir fry tonight we all ended up with something, as for example Linda bought me a braclet with a Hawaiian petroglyph in it.”
Hawaiian Adventure Day 8: Akaka falls, woodwork and the best breakfast in the USA
“There are petroglyph sites, archeological and paleontological sites and, still in Utah, a quarry where you can go and dig for your own trilobite.”
“A petroglyph at a site just south of the Arizona border, near St. George, Utah:”
“Former New Mexico state archaeologist Glenna Dean's favorite overlooked spot is the Three Rivers petroglyph site.”
“The petroglyph carvings are outstanding, with various human-looking faces and bodies.”
“The Three Rivers petroglyph photos were interesting -- no doubt you were researching your next book, "The Petroglyph Code", about how a time-traveling Sasha Solomon solves the prehistoric murder of a Native American by decrypting the symbols embedded in the face scratched onto a rock by the dying victim.”
“In one mock-up on the Nevada State Treasurer's Web site, a petroglyph of a bighorn sheep depicted in an outline of Nevada is actually found on a rock in the desert of south-central California.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘petroglyph’.
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Scribblative ✍
Scrawlings, notes, odd writings, and messages.
doodle, notation, scrawl, tracing, scribble, latrinalia, sketch, squiggle, notelet, post-it, chicken scratch, caligraphy and 88 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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GRE List
anthem, ablution, apocrypha, augur, cardinal, cathedral, chant, chapel, cloister, conformist, cult, devout and 145 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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petro-, petr-
of or relating to rock; relating to petroleum
petrography, petrochemical, petrify, petrefaction, petrification, petroglyph, petrified, petrol, petroleum
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Into the Wild
List of vocabulary words built while reading Into the Wild for summer reading.
7/10escarpment, amalgam, muskeg, derelict, cordillera, anomaly, posit, convivial, mien, inimical, credo, portage and 40 more...
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TT2 Lesson 18
Nevada, basin, faraway, inland, onto, rocky, peak, period, seafloor, prehistoric, historic, history and 77 more...
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The Writing on the Wall
Or the pictures. Or the ads. You get the idea. :-)
petroglyph, pictograph, pictogram, graffiti, pintada, ideogram, billboard, signboard, placard, poster, plaque, affiche and 5 more...
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eudoxia's Words
trajectory, albeit, surinam, parseval, heraklit, granular, ostensibly, doctor zhivago, takoradi, octothorpe, herr mannelig, adenosine and 58 more...
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Words, words, words
I know a hawk from a handsaw
metaxu, hardy, stout, teleological, heteroglossia, thin, library, theopoetics, sturdy, petroglyph, oasthouse, alum and 16 more...
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Symbols
names of symbols
geoid, lemniscate, yin-yang, mandala, cross, triquetra, torii, fylfot, flammulation, mascle, delta, crescent and 30 more...
Tweets
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