Noun: breccia
| Singular | breccia |
| Plural | breccias |
Sample Sentences
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Courses of angular boulders line the rim of the volcano, the remains of its last explosive phase, resulting in a volcanic breccia. [2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 24:]
Nouns inflected like breccia
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian breccia, from French brèche, from Middle French breche, from Old French breche, from Vulgar Latin *breca, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *breka. See: Italian Nouns '
breccia', French Nouns '
brèche'.