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.