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rockery

rockery

1 7.5
A garden area with rocks and small plants such as mountain flowers
  • noun
  • /ˈrɑːkəri/
  • UK
translation icon : jardín de rocas
  • I take it you're also heading for the Alconbury's rockery.
  • rockery garden

She took all the the rockery away.

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Examples

  • He decided to add a rockery beside the patio to create a more visually appealing landscape.

  • The Northern Fur Seal rockery at Reef Point is a protected area with a high wooden viewing blind erected to prevent the intrusion of humans from the mating area below, but at the same time, one can easily photograph with a long telephoto lens.

    Academic text (2004)

  • "No, you cannot make a fortress in the rockery garden."

    Fiction book (1994)

  • I'm in the desert, and my front yard is a rockery.

    Blog text (16)

  • He trotted around the inner path, past the herb gardens, stepping over rockery plants with a lightness he hadn't shown in years.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The rockery in her garden was filled with vibrant alpine flowers and smooth stones.

  • The children loved exploring the rockery, searching for hidden plants and colorful stones.

Synonyms

rock garden
vsrockery
5 3.2

A garden with many rocks and low plants like mountain flowers

is a planted section within a larger garden
rocaille
vsrockery
  • Specialized
9.9

A small group of fake rocks in a garden that people use for decoration

is a planted, modest garden section rather than ornate decoration
rockwork
vsrockery
6.0

An arrangement of rocks used to decorate or build parts of a garden

is a specific planted garden part not any rock structure

How Rocky

rock outcrop
  • Specialized
1 6.0
rockery
  • UK
1 7.5
flower bed
14 1.0

Surface Forms

rockery singular
rockeries plural

Morphology

rockery = rock (transparent) = rock + ery

The meaning is directly derived from 'rock' plus the productive place/collective suffix '-ery', denoting a place or collection of rocks.

Etymology

Rockery comes from rock ('stone') plus the ending -ery, which shows a place or group, as in bakery. So a rockery is a 'place of stones' in a garden where people arrange rocks and small plants.