Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artificial mound formed of stones or fragments of rock, earth, etc., for the cultivation of particular kinds of plants, as ferns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gardening) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
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- noun a section of a
garden made fromdecorative rocks andalpine plants
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants
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Examples
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A rockery is a part of the place in which plants are grown in pockets between rocks.
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Presently, armed with an order to view, she was standing in the old-fashioned long drawing-room with its two french windows giving on to a flagged terrace in front of which a kind of rockery interspersed with flowering shrubs fell sharply to a stretch of lawn below.
Sleeping Murder Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1976
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This "rockery," as it is called, is clothed in summer with verdure and flowers, and from its summit one finds an extended and charming view of the village, with its cottages, its workshops, and the villas of the proprietors of the latter.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 Various
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Arthur had made a fantastic "rockery" of skulls and shanks and ribs, and filled it in with earth, enough to furnish growth for trailing nasturtiums, whose bright red and yellow blossoms were strangely at variance with their sombre setting.
The Second Chance 1910
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Arthur had made a fantastic "rockery" of skulls and shanks and ribs, and filled it in with earth, enough to furnish growth for trailing nasturtiums, whose bright red and yellow blossoms were strangely at variance with their sombre setting.
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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Near the sycamore, where an old oak had fallen, the rotting stump was hidden by a high "rockery," edged with conch shells, and over the rough gray rocks a tangle of garden flowers ran wild -- sweet-william, petunias, phlox, and the mossy stems of red and yellow portulaca.
The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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There's no real feeling of a barrier between you and the animals (except the highly dangerous big-cats and eagles), with water barriers and a kind of rockery-barrier-meets-electric-fence thing.
Planet Python Aaron Brady 2009
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The hike leaves from Silvermine Reserve (entrance R15 per adult) and took us roughly 40 minutes to cover the walk through spiderwebs, fynbos and rockery.
Elephants Eye HayleyM 2009
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The hike leaves from Silvermine Reserve (entrance R15 per adult) and took us roughly 40 minutes to cover the walk through spiderwebs, fynbos and rockery.
Archive 2009-02-01 HayleyM 2009
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A cornucopia of flowers bursts through rockery walls.
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word rockery
The boy's name Peter is pronounced PEE-ter. It is of Greek origin, and its meaning is "rock."
...therefore... it has been officially decided by the Pete Collective, that the collective noun for a group of people called Peter is: A Rockery
February 25, 2007
seanahan commented on the word rockery
The biblical apostle Simon was called Peter by Jesus because he was to be the rock upon which the Christian church was to be built.
http://mizian.com.ne.kr/englishwiz/library/names/etymology_of_first_names.htm#P
February 25, 2007