living rock

Questions about living rock

What does living rock mean?

living rock means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for living rock?

Close synonyms include Ariocarpus fissuratus, living granite, stone mimicry plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is living rock a common word?

living rock is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.