Waterworn
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Worn or smoothed by the action of water erosion.
"waterworn stones"
Adjective
- 1 (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water wordnet
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More examples"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.