Usually means: Light, porous volcanic rock material.
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  1. pumice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pumice: Merriam-Webster
  3. pumice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pumice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pumice: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pumice: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pumice, pumice: Wordnik
  8. pumice (stone): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pumice: Wiktionary
  10. pumice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pumice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pumice: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pumice: Dictionary.com
  14. pumice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Pumice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pumice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pumice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pumice: Rhymezone
  19. Pumice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pumice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pumice: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pumice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pumice: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pumice: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pumice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pumice: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. pumice: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
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Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
verb:  (transitive) To abrade or roughen with pumice.

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