tuff

Meaning

Noun

A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.

Adj

Eye dialect spelling of tough.

Synonyms

tufa

cardoon

Translations

Tuff

tufo

toba

tufsteen

tufo

tuf

tuff

طوف

tuf volcanique

Tuffstein

tufo vulcanico

υφαιστιακός τόφος

süngertaşı

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tʌf/

Etymology

From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa.