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WALL ROCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wall rock mean?
• WALL ROCK (noun)
The noun WALL ROCK has 1 sense:
1. a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault
Familiarity information: WALL ROCK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("wall rock" is a kind of...):
rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)
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