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- Rocky - a. - Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
- Rocky - a. - Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
- Rocky - a. - Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
- Keckle - v. t. - To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice.
- Crees - n. pl. - An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.
- Scarry - a. - Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars.
- Pronghorn - n. - An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.
- Tor - n. - High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle.
- Littorina - n. - A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.
- Oreodon - n. - A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
- Rocky - a. - Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
- Malma - n. - A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.
- Prairie - n. - An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.
- Laramie group - - An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology.
- Rocky - a. - Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
- Kangaroo - n. - Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Halmaturus, inhabit wooded districts. See Wallaby.
- Steinbock - n. - A small South African antelope (Nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok.
- Scree - n. - A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky debris.
- Scar - n. - An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
- Pothole - n. - A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.
- Skerry - n. - A rocky isle; an insulated rock.
- Fell - n. - A barren or rocky hill.
- Butte - n. - A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
- Bison - n. - The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.
- Chinook - n. - A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.
- Mazame - n. - A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat.
- Chief hare - - A small rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.
- Breadroot - n. - The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.
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- H1630 גְּרִזִים - 1630 גְּרִזִים - גְּרִזִים - - Gᵉrizîym - gher-ee-zeem' - plural of an unused noun from גָּרַז (compare גִּזְרִי), cut up (i.e. rocky); Gerizim, a mountain of Palestine; Gerizim. - Proper Name Location - x-pn
- G4075 πετρώδης - 4075 πετρώδης - ΠΕΤΡΏΔΗΣ - - petrṓdēs - pet-ro'-dace - from πέτρα and εἶδος; rock-like, i.e. rocky:--stony. - Adjective - greek
- G5138 τραχύς - 5138 τραχύς - ΤΡΑΧΎΣ - - trachýs - trakh-oos' - perhaps strengthened from the base of ῥήγνυμι (as if jagged by rents); uneven, rocky (reefy):--rock, rough. - Adjective - greek