Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a boulder; full of boulders.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Characterized by bowlders.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing boulders

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  • adjective abounding in rocks or stones

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Examples

  • So we went to the more-bouldery gym today because our regular gym is closed for renovation.

    I think the last third of 2008 will be the time in which I practice my zen. matociquala 2008

  • It also has less bouldery colluvium than those two surrounding regions and more saprolite.

    Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA) 2009

  • Habitat types vary from cliffs and bouldery shores to pebbly and sandy beaches and from wooded hillsides to occasional swamps and lagoons.

    Lake Malawi National Park, Malawi 2009

  • They are exceptionally well formed and are excellent representatives of the form: ridges of bouldery till up to 5 m high, 10-50 m wide, and in some cases more than 1,000 m long, occurring in large fields and compact clusters at 40-300 m intervals, mostly in low-lying areas.

    Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

  • The two major marine habitats are hard, stony, bouldery bottoms, and shallow vegetated mud bottoms often covered by meadows of weed.

    Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

  • It also has less bouldery colluvium than those two surrounding regions and more saprolite.

    Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA) 2008

  • I thought while looking at this outcrop the last time I stopped, that there might be some faulting or shearing between the whitish layer and the upper, densest part of the welded tuff the reddish gray, bouldery, hard-looking stuff with possible shearing taken up in part in the brighter reddish zone, in which you can still see some compaction foliation.

    Geology on the Road: Highway 50 #1 Silver Fox 2008

  • Discontinuous, sandy, bouldery morainal veneers dominate its surfaces.

    Eastern Canadian Shield taiga 2007

  • (February 19th), on a Safh or high bouldery ledge of the left bank, where it receives the broad Kusayb watercourse.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • This top attractor pattern is virtually unmatched in snatching trout from heavy currents, broken water, and bouldery pockets.

    Royal Wulff 1999

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