I rub the soles of my feet with pumice in order to smooth them.
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Pumice
//ˈpʌm.ɪs//
Synonyms for "pumice" (13 found)
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13 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 59 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κίσηρις noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Arabic
1 entries- خَفَاف noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Armenian
1 entries- պեմզա noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Basque
1 entries- pumita noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Belarusian
1 entries- пе́мза noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Bengali
1 entries- ঝামা পাথর noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пе́мза noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Catalan
1 entries- pumicita noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 浮岩 noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- 浮石 noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Czech
1 entries- pemza noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Danish
1 entries- pimpsten noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Dutch
1 entries- puimsteen noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Esperanto
1 entries- pumiko noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Estonian
1 entries- pimss noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Finnish
1 entries- hohkakivi noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
French
2 entries- pierre ponce noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- ponce noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Friulian
1 entries- pomighe noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Galician
1 entries- pedra pómez noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Georgian
1 entries- პემზა noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
German
1 entries- Bims noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Greek
1 entries- ελαφρόπετρα noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Hebrew
1 entries- פומיס noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Hindi
1 entries- झाँवाँ noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Hungarian
3 entries- habkő noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- horzsakő noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- tajtékkő noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Icelandic
1 entries- vikur noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Ido
1 entries- pumiko noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Indonesian
1 entries- batu apung noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Irish
1 entries- slíogart noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Italian
1 entries- pomice noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Japanese
1 entries- 軽石 noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Kazakh
1 entries- пемза noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Kildin Sami
1 entries- тыӈӈ noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Korean
1 entries- 경석 noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- пемза noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Latin
1 entries- pūmex noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pemza noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Māori
2 entries- pungapunga noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- tāhoata noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Norman
1 entries- pièrre dé ponce noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Northern Sami
1 entries- dikŋa noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Norwegian
1 entries- pimpstein noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Occitan
1 entries- pomce noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Old French
2 entries- pomis noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- ponce noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Persian
1 entries- سنگ پا noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Polish
1 entries- pumeks noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Portuguese
2 entries- pedra-pomes noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- púmice noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Romanian
1 entries- piatră ponce noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Russian
1 entries- пе́мза noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- plovučac noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- пловућац noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Sicilian
1 entries- petra pùmici noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Slovak
1 entries- pemza noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Spanish
4 entries- jal noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- piedra pómez noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- pumita noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- pómez noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Swedish
1 entries- pimpsten noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Tagalog
2 entries- batong-buga noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
- buga noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Turkish
1 entries- ponza noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Ukrainian
1 entries- пе́мза noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Uzbek
1 entries- pemza noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đá bọt noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Welsh
1 entries- pwmis noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּימס noun (a light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock)
Sample sentences
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The rough pumice can abrade the skin.
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Is this pumice?
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Everyone is familiar with the fact that pumice floats upon water; this it does, not because it is a material specifically lighter than water, but because cavities filled with air make up a great part of its bulk. If we pulverise pumice, we find the powder sinks readily in water, but the rock in its natural condition floats for the same reason that an iron ship does—because of the air-chambers which it encloses.
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