pemza — meaning in English
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English meaning
- pumice noun A light, full of tiny holes volcanic rock, often used to scrub away dead skin.
Senses
pemza is used for these senses in English:
- holystone (nautical) A piece of soft sandstone used for scouring the wooden decks of ships, usually with sand and seawater. [1823]
- pumice A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.