greywacke

Meaning of greywacke

noun
  1. a dark coarse-grained sandstone containing more than 15 per cent clay.
    a 120-foot pyramid of battered greywacke a quarter mile offshore
    the shales and greywackes of the Skiddaw Group

late 18th century (as grauwacke ): from German Grauwacke, from grau ‘grey’ + wacke. The anglicized form dates from the early 19th century.

Information about greywacke

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of greywacke is: greywackes.
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Hyphenation of greywacke

greywacke

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
  • greywacke is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with greywacke

tirracke, grauwacke, graywacke, wacke

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