piedra

Definitions of piedra
  1. noun
    a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
    synonyms: hueso, roca
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    cancho, cantal, canto, canto rodado, galga, pedrejón, peña, peñasco
    a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin
    cálculo
    a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body
    cristal
    a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces
    afloración, afloramiento, corrida, crestón, farallón
    the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land
    guijarro
    a small smooth rounded rock
    petrificación
    a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form
    cálculo biliar
    a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts
    cálculo renal, nefrolito, piedra del riñón
    a calculus formed in the kidney
  2. noun
    a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body
    synonyms: cálculo
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    cálculo biliar
    a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts
    cálculo renal, nefrolito, piedra del riñón
    a calculus formed in the kidney
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    hueso, roca
    a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
  3. noun
    precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
    synonyms: granizo, pedrisco
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    precipitación
    the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
  4. noun
    material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
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    cuarcita
    hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals
    grava
    broken rock used for repairing or making roads
    arena, arenillas, cascajo, casquijo, grava, gravilla, guijo, recebo
    rock fragments and pebbles
    piedra pómez, pómez
    a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive
    conglomerado
    a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
    magma
    molten rock in the earth's crust
    caliza, calizo, piedra caliza, tepetate
    a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals
    pizarra
    a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
    gneis
    a laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite
    esquisto
    any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
    pórfido
    any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals
    esquisto, pizarra
    a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
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    materia
    the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
  5. noun
    a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
    synonyms: pedernal, piedra de mechero, sílex
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    sílice
    a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
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