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rockery
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Below the well, a waterfall tumbled across an artificial rockery . ▪ Finally, the surrounding ground on either side of the waterfall can be made into a rockery , thus completing the feature. ▪ He almost laughs when he sees what ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rockery \Rock"er*y\, n. (Gardening) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants [syn: rock garden ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a section of a garden made from decorative rocks and alpine plants
Usage examples of rockery.
From behind his rockery stone he joined in the round of applause as she tripped down off the final step.
Then past the rockery where the garden widened to the lawn, unkempt and lost looking but lending coolness and softness to the weathered brick.
And as they skirted a rockery that some bemused enthusiast had caused to be made out of old bricks and black clinkers, Moorhouse thought of the Avon valley, and wondered what Mrs.
The one on the highest level had a small wooden deck jutting out over part of the rockery, and the lowest level residence had a ground-hugging porch, whose slender doweled pillars looked nearly too fragile to support the floor of tike third, mid-level apartment above it.
A few minutes later, picking her way through the deeper shadows cast by the high rockery bordering her yard, she shivered in the chill night air.
Helen, had built a rockery at the bottom of the narrow garden above the cliff.
Iain was standing on the lawn half way between the rockery and the conservatory that his grandfather had added to the back of the house.
When her right heel collided with the rockery, she stumbled, causing the heel of her left foot to sink into the recently-watered earth.
Iain strode through the conservatory, into the garden and up on to the rockery his father had built for his mother long ago.
Iain still stood on the rockery with his arms crossed and his eyes focused out to sea.
They had planted flowering shrubs grown from cuttings rooted in pots on their windowsill, sown seeds, built a rockery using stones from the surrounding area, and laid out a short curving path with a seat made from boulders at the end of it.
Every morning, they make their way down through the rockery to the summerhouse, and there they take off their dressing gowns and face into the sun, naked.
And then Vi had to follow my mother up the rockery, right past the garden boy quite naked.
She was sitting in the rockery with old Godolphin, beside a goldfish pool.
Neighbours to one side of 181 had begun what might have looked like a rockery had they not lost interest.