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Pumiceous

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pum·ice  (pms)
n.
A light, porous, glassy lava, used in solid form as an abrasive and in powdered form as a polish and an abrasive.
tr.v. pum·iced, pum·ic·ing, pum·ic·es
To clean, polish, or smooth with pumice.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman pomis, from Late Latin pmex, from Latin pmex, alteration of spma, foam.]
pu·miceous (py-mshs, p-) adj.
pumic·er n.


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Half way up was a square enclosure of some greyish stone, which I found subsequently was built partly of coral and partly of pumiceous lava.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
These beds are covered by others of a peculiar soft white stone, including much gypsum, and resembling chalk, but really of a pumiceous nature.
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