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RIVER BOULDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does river boulder mean?
• RIVER BOULDER (noun)
The noun RIVER BOULDER has 1 sense:
1. a boulder that has been carried by a river to a place remote from its place of origin
Familiarity information: RIVER BOULDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A boulder that has been carried by a river to a place remote from its place of origin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("river boulder" is a kind of...):
boulder; bowlder (a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin)
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