rock climbing | the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment) |
rock careen sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola | tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest |
cock of the rock Rupicola peruviana | bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola |
rock wren Salpinctes obsoletus | wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico |
rock wren Xenicus gilviventris | short-tailed bird resembling a wren |
rock python rock snake Python sebae | very large python of tropical and southern Africa |
rock rattlesnake Crotalus lepidus | mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest |
Plymouth Rock | an American breed of domestic fowl |
Rock Cornish | small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl |
Greek partridge rock partridge Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
rock dove rock pigeon Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
rock wallaby rock kangaroo | slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas |
rock crab Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
spiny lobster langouste rock lobster crawfish crayfish sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
acorn barnacle rock barnacle Balanus balanoides | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones |
rock hopper crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
pika mouse hare rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
rock squirrel Citellus variegatus | large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States |
rock hyrax rock rabbit Procavia capensis | hyrax that lives in rocky areas |
rock bass rock sunfish Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
rock sea bass rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
rock hind Epinephelus adscensionis | found around rocky coasts or on reefs |
rock beauty Holocanthus tricolor | gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil |
rock gunnel butterfish Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters |
bore bit borer rock drill stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
rock bit roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
rock garden rockery | a garden featuring rocks, usually alpine plants |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
rock opera | albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art, first appeared in the s |
rock concert | a performance of rock music |
rock 'n' roll rock'n'roll rock-andoll rock and roll rock rock music | a genre of popular music originating in the s, a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western, rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll. |
progressive rock art rock | a style of rock music that emerged in the s, associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms, intended for listening and not dancing |
psychedelic rock acid rock | a musical style that emerged in the s, rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience |
punk rock punk | rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation, in part a reaction against progressive rock |
rock candy | sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string |
rock candy rock | hard brightolored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) |
rock cake | a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock |
Rock Cornish hen | flesh of a small fowl bred for roasting |
spiny lobster langouste rock lobster crayfish | warm-water lobsters without claws, those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails, caught also in Florida and California |
rock salmon | any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food |
rock group rock band | a band of musicians who play rock'n'roll music |
rock bottom | the absolute bottom |
Gibraltar Rock of Gibraltar Calpe | location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain, strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean, one of the Pillars of Hercules |
Little Rock capital of Arkansas | the state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River |
Rock Island | a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River, site of a Union prison during the American Civil War |
Plymouth Rock | a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower |
Rock Springs | a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border |
Black Rock Desert | a desert in northwestern Nevada |
clastic rock | (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks |