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stone-face

n. any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones [syn: lithops, living stone, stoneface, stone plant, stone life face, flowering stone]

Usage examples of "stone-face".

He even got a nod from the stone-faced Wall Street executive who never before had given him the time of day.

Dukat ambled down the steps, nodding silent laudto his officers and crew, shining in the adoration ofthe Cardassians who saw this post as so vindicating,pretending that the stone-faced Jem Hadar, who hadno expressions at all, were adoring him too.

Every time he approached a sitting group, perforce on hands and knees in the low-ceilinged room, stone-faced security frogs came out of the woodwork and herded him back to his spot.

Rainyn, an apple-cheeked young woman who also served on a soarer, occupied the chair next to Senine, and stone-faced, flat-eyed Kurin sat beside Shielyn like a black carving.

Two stone-faced policemen in heavy greatcoats and fur shapkas sat in the warmth of the cab.

Stone-faced, the small grey man had begged leave to sew the boys' heads back onto their shoulders, so they might be laid in the crypts below with the other Stark dead.

The other side offered a stippled portrait with the look of stone-faced gravity that seemed the man's natural expression.

On the other hand, if it's an election thing, we can ignore groups who don't vote very much, like trade school metal heads and stone-faced urban homeboys.