Monolithic: alternatives and connections

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, a…

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having ex…

Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.

A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thu…

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic…

A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as man…

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or…

Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone; as, a lapidarian record.

A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.

A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.

Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, mono…