WordNet
n. highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with gray-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa [syn: living rock, stone mimicry plant]
Usage examples of "living granite".
His mind filled in the other hidden things: the vast engineering works that brought in water from the Maluti mountains and the headwaters of the Zambezi a thousand kilometers away, the nuclear power-units buried thousands of feet below in living granite….
Rungs were anchored to the living granite, three feet apart, the tunnel inside angling steeply upward.
The shaft was lined with metal and planks until bedrock was met and from there only the natural living granite met their gaze.
The great notched circular line of rock below and between the peaks, in the body of the mountains, showed where in ages past the heart of living granite had blown out, to let loose on all the near surrounding desert the streams of black lava and the hills of black cinders.
Blasted into the living granite rock of the Catoctin Mountains of western Maryland, it had a solid sixty feet of overhead protection, and until 1975 or so had been a highly secure and survivable shelter.