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living rock

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Noun1.living rockliving rock - usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
cactus - any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines
Ariocarpus, genus Ariocarpus - slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas
2.living rock - highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
genus Pleiospilos, Pleiospilos - perennial succulents of South Africa
succulent - a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs


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All the Kukuana army could not break through five feet of living rock.
Some of the cells carved in the living rock were just behind the face of the precipice, and in each of these an arrow-slit had been pierced outward to the daylight, and so the captive had a thin ray from the blessed sun for his comfort.
We loitered through dungeon after dungeon, away down into the living rock below the level of the sea, it seemed.
 
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