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rocky

/ˈɹɑki/ adjective B2
  1. Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks. · a rocky mountain a rocky shore
  2. Like a rock; rigid, solid.
  3. Having a habitat around or on rocks.
  4. Having little or no money; stony broke. (slang)

Comparative rockier · Superlative rockiest

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They whirled up Forty-second to Broadway, and then down the white-starred lane that leads from the soft meadows of sunset to the rocky hills of morning.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 13 · C1
They traveled that day and part of the next until they came to the rocky plain where the Tin Woodman lay, all battered and bent.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 91 · B2
“I stood up and examined the rocky wall behind me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 12 · C1
Again he climbed the rocky height he had ascended the previous evening, and strained his view to catch every peculiarity of the landscape; but it wore the same wild, barren aspect when seen by the rays of the morning sun which it had done when surveyed by the fading glimmer of eve.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 265 · C1

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