plymouth rock

1. 1.

   a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower

   Broaderboulder

   Part ofPlymouth
2. 2.

   an American breed of domestic fowl

   Broaderdomestic fowl

Questions about plymouth rock

What does plymouth rock mean?

plymouth rock means "a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is plymouth rock a common word?

plymouth 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.