What is "living rock"

Living \Liv"ing\ (l[i^]v"[i^]ng), a. [From Live, v. i.]

1. Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead.

2. Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle. `` Living hope. ''
   --Wyclif.

3. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant.

4. Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. ``Living light.''
   --Shak.

5. Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.

   Then on the living coals wine they pour.
   --Dryden.

   Living force. See Vis viva, under Vis.

   Living gale (Naut.), a heavy gale.

   Living rock or Living stone, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. `` I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut out of the living rock.''
   --Moore.

   The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive.

n. Rock that is carved in situ.

1. n. usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States [syn: Ariocarpus fissuratus]

2. highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with gray-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa [syn: living granite, stone mimicry plant]

Living rock can refer to:

• Dwarf succulent plants resembling stones, especially of the genera:

:* Ariocarpus

:* Astrophytum

:* Aztekium

:* Epithelantha

:* Geohintonia

:* Lithops

:* Lophophora

:* Obregonia

:* Turbinicarpus

:* Strombocactus

• Pyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock
• Rock-cut architecture, in phrases such as "hewn from the living rock"