“pudding、stone”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pudding-stone

释义

ˈpudding-stone
A composite rock consisting of a mass of rounded pebbles cemented together by a siliceous matrix; conglomerate.
1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Oculatus lapis, What we call the pudding stone, a stone formed of a great number of pebbles, of a small size, immersed, and formerly bedded, in a flinty cement, little less hard than the stones themselves, [or] not at all so.1774Strange in Phil. Trans. LXV. 40 Confusedly concreted together, like a pudding stone.1839Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 434/1 Pudding stones differ from breccias, by being composed of rounded fragments, either of marble or hard stones.
b. attrib., as pudding-stone marble, pudding-stone rock, pudding-stone stratum.
1806Gazetteer Scotl. (ed. 2) 295 The pudding-stone rocks near the village of Oban.1839Ure Dict. Arts 799 Puddingstone marbles; a conglomerate of rounded pieces.1894M. Dyan All in a Man's K. (1899) 55 A mere rift between the great puddingstone rocks.

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