Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mudstone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English

Syllables: mud-stone
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The new fossils come from mudstones in central Poland, in beds that have been dated using other, much more common and cosmopolitan, fossils."
"Excavation of the twin bore tunnel will produce around 500,000 tonnes of mudstone and soil, which will be processed on site and then reused to build embankments elsewhere along the route."

Etymology

From mud + stone.

Usage

Inflected Forms

mudstones (plural)

Derived Forms

metamudstone

Questions

What does mudstone mean?: A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
Where does mudstone come from?: From mud + stone.

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