Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpʌmɪs/
pumice
- A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles. As the lava solidifies, the bubbles are frozen into the rock.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10
- The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10
- French: ponce
- German: Bims
- Italian: pomice
- Portuguese: pedra-pomes
- Russian: пе́мза
- Spanish: pumita, piedra pómez
pumice (pumices, present participle pumicing; past and past participle pumiced)
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