CLASTIC ROCK

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Meaning:

(geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("clastic rock" is a kind of...):

rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)

Meronyms (parts of "clastic rock"):

clast ((geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Derivation:

clastic (of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone))