Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to pumice; consisting of pumice, or resembling pumice: as, pumiceous structure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
pumice ; resembling pumice.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Half way up was a square enclosure of some greyish stone, which I found subsequently was built partly of coral and partly of pumiceous lava.
The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006
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These beds are covered by others of a peculiar soft white stone, including much gypsum, and resembling chalk, but really of a pumiceous nature.
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These beds are covered by others of a peculiar soft white stone, including much gypsum, and resembling chalk, but really of a pumiceous nature.
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K/Na of the groundmass feldspar equals K/Na in pumiceous glass of the host pumice, hinting that the granophyric minerals grew by closed-system crystallization of the rhyolitic melt.
Granophyre.html 1998
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Mr. Heard, reposing on the rough pumiceous ground with his eye fixed upon the naughty FLUTTERBY whose virginal whiteness, with declining day, had assumed a tell-tale crimson blush, pieced together these and sundry other little bits of information.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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Walking through the first of these you clambered down some slippery stairs into what was once a breathless subterranean vault hewn out of the soft and dry pumiceous rock and used, as was customary, for storing barrels and other paraphernalia.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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For hundreds of miles of coast there is one great deposit composed of shells -- a white pumiceous stone like chalk, including gypsum and _infusoria_.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909
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These beds are covered by others of a peculiar soft white stone, including much gypsum, and resembling chalk, but really of a pumiceous nature.
Chapter VIII 1909
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Half way up was a square enclosure of some greyish stone, which I found subsequently was built partly of coral and partly of pumiceous lava.
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Half way up was a square enclosure of some greyish stone, which I found subsequently was built partly of coral and partly of pumiceous lava.
The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896
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