Definitions for breccias

breccias brec·ci·a

Spelling: [brech-ee-uh, bresh-]
IPA: /ˈbrɛtʃ i ə, ˈbrɛʃ-/

Breccias is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in breccias (abcceirs).

Definitions for breccias

noun

  1. rock composed of angular fragments of older rocks melded together.

Origin of breccias

1765-75; Italian Germanic; compare Old High German brecha breaking

Examples for breccias

breccia is a rock in which the included fragments are angular.

We then reached a small cavern ending in several fissures choked up with the breccia.

It is composed of huge blocks of breccia, some of them thirteen feet long.

We must notice that all the implements found in the breccia are similar to those of the Drift, being rudely formed and massive.

Its material is a breccia from a quarry near Thebes, and is remarkable for its hardness.

A breccia is a rock made up of angular pebbles or fragments of other rocks.

No other bone of so great dimensions has since been discovered within the breccia.

But the relics found in the breccia a, and the upper portion of the cave earth b, denote a sudden advance in culture.

The investigation disclosed several different beds of stalagmite, cave earth, and breccia.

Again, below the cave-earth was a breccia formed of limestone and sandstone pebbles cemented together by a calcareous paste.

Word Value for breccias
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13

Words with friends

16

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