PLYMOUTH ROCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Plymouth Rock mean? 

• PLYMOUTH ROCK (noun)
  The noun PLYMOUTH ROCK has 2 senses:

1. a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower

2. an American breed of domestic fowl

  Familiarity information: PLYMOUTH ROCK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLYMOUTH ROCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

boulder; bowlder (a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin)

Holonyms ("Plymouth Rock" is a part of...):

Plymouth (a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An American breed of domestic fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Plymouth Rock" is a kind of...):

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)