BOWLDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowlder mean? 

• BOWLDER (noun)
  The noun BOWLDER has 1 sense:

1. a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin

  Familiarity information: BOWLDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOWLDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

boulder; bowlder

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)