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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUDDING STONE

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WHAT DOES PUDDING STONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Puddingstone (rock)

Puddingstone, also known as either pudding stone or plum-pudding stone, is a popular name applied to a conglomerate that consists of distinctly rounded pebbles whose colors contrast sharply with the color of the finer-grained, often sandy, matrix or cement surrounding them. The rounded pebbles and the sharp contrast in color gives this type of conglomerate the appearance of a raisin or Christmas pudding. There are different types of puddingstone, with different composition, origin, and geographical distribution. Examples of different types of puddingstones include the Hertfordshire, Schunemunk, Roxbury, and St. Joseph Island, puddingstones. Hertfordshire puddingstone...

Definition of pudding stone in the English dictionary

The definition of pudding stone in the dictionary is a conglomerate rock in which there is a difference in colour or composition between the pebbles and the matrix.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUDDING STONE

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puddening
pudder
pudding
pudding basin
pudding club
pudding rice
pudding-face
pudding-head
puddingy
puddle
puddler
puddling
puddly
puddock
puddy
pudency
pudenda
pudendal
pudendous

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUDDING STONE

Blackstone
cornerstone
firestone
gemstone
Gladstone
hearthstone
histone
keystone
kill two birds with one stone
limestone
Livingstone
Maidstone
milestone
rhinestone
rolling stone
sandstone
stepping stone
stone
tombstone
tone
Yellowstone

Synonyms and antonyms of pudding stone in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pudding stone» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

布丁石
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

piedra pudín
570 millions of speakers

English

pudding stone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हलवा पत्थर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحجر بودنغ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пудинг камень
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pudim de pedra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুডিং পাথর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poudingue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Batu puding
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Puddingstein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

プリン石
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

푸딩 돌
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Puding watu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đá bánh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புட்டுக்கல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सांजा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Puding stone
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pietra budino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

budyń kamienia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пудинг камінь
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

piatră budinca
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πουτίγκα πέτρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poeding klip
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pudding sten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pudding stein
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUDDING STONE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUDDING STONE»

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Observations and Reflections on Geology: Intended to Serve ...
Gravel may be connected together by what was in chemical solution, and form plum- pudding stone ; the sand forming freestone. The cement will be of various kinds, such as metals, particularly the pyrites, Extraneous Fossils, &c As a proof of ...
John Hunter, 1859
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A description of the minerals in the Leskean Museum
C. Pudding Stone. 877 A reddish brown, spotted with yellowish grey, Pudding Stone ; from England. 878 Reddish brown, spotted with greyish white, Pudding Stone ; from the Western coast of the Caspian Sea. Rtm. Hitherto they were only ...
Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten, 1798
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An Introduction to Mineralogy: Comprising the Natural ...
PUDDING-STONE consists of rounded nodules or pebbles imbedded in a paste. It differs from cemented breccias, the imbedded masses of which are angular. It differs from porphyry which contains imbedded crystals. Pudding-stone more ...
Robert Bakewell, 1819
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Australian Almanac
At the foot of Meranni, towards Reedy Creek, may be seen at one spot in the creek, the syenitic rock of the top; higher up the red conglomerate; then a kind of Wacke; then sandstone, and after this a high ledge of pudding stone, which can be ...
‎1867
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Philosophical Magazine and Journal
the name of a sandstone than pudding-stone. From the river side the pudding- stone can be traced crossing the road a little below Leigh. It is then for some distance lost on account of the cultivated state of the country, but in the hills near Pill ...
6
New England Legends and Folk Lore
IN those pleasant suburban districts formerly the towns of Roxbury and Dorchester, the rock everywhere seen in the roadside walls and outcropping ledges is the very curious conglomerate familiarly known as pudding-stone; so called, ...
Samuel Adams Drake, 2001
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The American Journal of Science and Arts
Two or three miles north of the College, it emerges in abundance, and becomes broader through Leverett, which is perhaps one of the best places for examining it ; especially when we consider its proximity there to pudding stone. Mount Toby  ...
‎1822
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Fossils arranged according to their obvius characters with ...
5« COARSE RED PUDDING STONE. Vast lumps soft heavy 6. COARSE BLUE PUDDING STONE. Vast masses hard heavy a " 1 ** J. COARSE GREENISH PUDDING STONE, Rounded nodules very hard heavy 8. COARSE VEINY PUDDING ...
J. Hill, R. Baldwin ((Londres)), Peter Elmsly ((Londres)), 1771
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American Journal of Science: The First Scientific Journal in ...
It appears, however, two miles south east of the Collegiate Institution, and I have no doubt that Seminary stands on this rock ; although some bowlders of pudding stone appear there. Two or three miles north of the College, it emerges in ...
‎1823
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The American Journal of Science
It appears, however, two miles south east of the Collegiate Institution, and I have no doubt that Seminary stands on this rock; although some bowlders of pudding stone appear there. Two or three miles north of the College, it emerges in ...
Wilmot Hyde Bradley, Byron Nelson Cooper, John Rodgers, 1823

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUDDING STONE»

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Cousins who believe King Harold is buried under floor of Stortford …
When he allowed a parishioner to open a family vault beneath the nave, excavation revealed a further vault containing pudding stone coffins of early Norman ... «Herts and Essex Observer, Oct 14»
2
Celebrating 50 years of rockhounding
Another member on a rockhounding vacation found himself near Chapleau, Ontario, looking for pudding stone which is a conglomerate rock. He ventured up a ... «Brantford Expositor, Mar 14»
3
Duke of Cumberland's Stone: The rock with a hard place in history
They determined the boulder to be a large block of conglomerate, also known as pudding stone. The bedrock beneath it is also conglomerate, but of a different ... «BBC News, Apr 13»

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