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What does stony mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word stony? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. As hard as stone.
  2. Containing or made up of stones.
  3. (figuratively) Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
  4. (figuratively) Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
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At the heart of the fleshy fruit, snug within its stony kernel, lies a bitter seed that is purported to hold miraculous anti-tumour properties.
For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity.
The harsh and simple answer to why Scotland voted to be absorbed in 1707 is because it was bankrupt, stony broke.
Throughout May Churchill continued to get a stony reception from the Conservative benches.
Tope packs come in shallow and work the edges of stony reefs looking for black bream, school bass, rockling and even small dogfish.
She could see nothing for miles but more stony peaks glittering in their mantles of silver and white.

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