living rock

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Noun1.Living rock - usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruitliving rock - 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
Ariocarpus, genus Ariocarpus - slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas rock - highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
genus Pleiospilos, Pleiospilos - perennial succulents of South Africa
succulent - a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs
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We loitered through dungeon after dungeon, away down into the living rock below the level of the sea, it seemed.
They had proceeded for a half or three-quarters of a mile when, at a turning of the gorge, Tarzan saw before him a narrow valley cut deep into the living rock of the earth's crust, with lofty mountain ranges bounding it upon the south.
Asked if he is the greatest living rock icon, Gallagher, who is about to release a solo album, said: "Others have said it and I do believe they're not f*** wrong."