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BOWLDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin
Synonyms:
boulder; bowlder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("bowlder" is a kind of...):
rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bowlder"):
glacial boulder (a boulder that has been carried by a glacier to a place far distant from its place of origin)
river boulder (a boulder that has been carried by a river to a place remote from its place of origin)
shore boulder (a boulder found on a shore remote from its place of origin)
Instance hyponyms:
Plymouth Rock (a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower)
