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rockwork

American  
[rok-wurk] / ˈrɒkˌwɜrk /

noun

  1. stonework.


Etymology

Origin of rockwork

First recorded in 1700–10; rock 1 + work

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While the rooms are meticulously detailed — carved rockwork, projections, trick weapons and filmed moments all intermingle with live actors — each participant only has about 10 seconds to take in the scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

Notable design elements include lighting designed to mimic seaweed and some choral reef rockwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Surrounded by 6,000 square feet of rockwork, a giant waterfall and lush jungle vegetation, Jurassic World VelociCoaster catapults guests along 4,700 feet of pulse-pounding track, 155 feet in the air at 70 mph.

From Fox News ● Aug. 16, 2021

It is a good rockwork shrub in a cool moist position.

From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook

Let the tank have cloisters of rockwork and jungles of weed, so that hiding may be possible, and then watch the smaller fish at their frolics.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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