pumice
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French pomis (“pumice stone”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pūmex (“pumice stone”).
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Noun
pumice (countable and uncountable, plural pumices)
- A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into the air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10
- The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10
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Verb
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- (transitive) To abrade or roughen with pumice.
See also
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) pūmice