boulder
Other forms: boulders
A boulder is a rock — a big one.
Scientists often think of a boulder in more technical terms than we do. They use the word to describe not just a big rock, but a rock that some natural force — a river, a glacier or the like — has moved from its original location to its present one. A good way to remember all this is to think of Boulder, a city in Colorado that stands in the middle of the Rocky Mountains, and is, no doubt, full of boulders.
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a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of originsynonyms: bowlderexamples:Plymouth Rocka boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflowertypes:glacial bouldera boulder that has been carried by a glacier to a place far distant from its place of originriver bouldera boulder that has been carried by a river to a place remote from its place of originshore bouldera boulder found on a shore remote from its place of origin
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