living rock

English

Noun

living rock (countable and uncountable, plural living rocks)

1. (uncountable) Rock that is carved in situ.

   Synonym: living stone

   The temple was hewed from the living rock.

   • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Evarra And His Gods”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 163:

     So that all men despised him in the streets, / He hewed the living rock, with sweat and tears,

2. Any of various dwarf succulent plants that resemble stones.
3. Pyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.