freestone — 英語辞典

名詞

1. Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.

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   Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.

   It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.

   The exterior walls are of freestone, and have a smooth, neat appearance.

2. A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.

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名詞

1. fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit

   上位語

   edible fruit