Waterworn

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Worn or smoothed by the action of water erosion.

    "waterworn stones"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water wordnet

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Example

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"In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming “streams of stones.” […] The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted […]"

Etymology

From water + worn.

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