living stone

Questions about living stone

What does living stone mean?

living stone means "any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones".

What is another word for living stone?

Close synonyms include lithops, stoneface, stone-face, stone plant, stone life face. 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 stone a common word?

living stone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.