bare rock

Frequency: 6.75.9 per million words

describes rock not covered by soil or plants

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Examples (10)

  • Ahead the vegetation broke into bare rock.
  • The summit of the mountain was nothing but bare rock.
  • After the forest fire, only bare rock remained on the hillside.
  • Geologists studied the layers of bare rock to understand Earth's history.
  • We had to scramble over large expanses of bare rock to reach the cave entrance.
  • The desert landscape was dominated by vast stretches of bare rock and sand.
  • Erosion had exposed the underlying bare rock in many places.
  • It was a harsh environment, with little soil and mostly bare rock.
  • The waterfall cascaded down a sheer face of bare rock.
  • Few plants can survive on the nutrient-poor bare rock surfaces.