Go to MSN Homeencarta®
Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Click to move up the list of words
breathe
breathed
breather
breathing
breathing room
breathless
breathtaking
breathy
breccia
Brecon Beacons National Park
bred
bred-in-the-bone
Breda
bredie
breech
breech birth
breech delivery
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

breccia
brec·ci·a [ bréchee ə, bréchə, bréshee ə, bréshə ]


noun 
Definition:
 
rock made of solidified rubble: a coarse-grained sedimentary rock made of sharp fragments of rock and stone cemented together by finer material. Breccia is produced by volcanic activity or erosion, including frost shattering.
[Late 18th century. < Italian, "gravel"]

brec·ci·al adjective
brec·ci·ate [ bréchee ayt, bréshee ayt ] transitive and intransitive verb
brec·ci·a·tion [ brèchee áysh'n, brèshee aysh'n ] noun
Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Advertisement
© 2009 Microsoft