Pumices vs Pumiced - What's the difference?
pumices | pumiced |
(pumice)
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A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into the air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock.
* 1912, , The Woman at the Store , Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10
To abrade or roughen with pumice.
As verbs the difference between pumices and pumiced
is that pumices is (pumice) while pumiced is (pumice).pumices
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Verb
(head)pumice
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Noun
(wikipedia pumice) (-)- The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.