petroglyph
pronunciation
How to pronounce petroglyph in British English:
UK ['petrəʊglɪf]
How to pronounce petroglyph in American English:
US [ˈpɛtrəˌɡlɪf]
Word Origin
- petroglyph (n.)
- 1870, from French pétroglyphe, from Greek petra "rock" (see petrous) + glyphe "carving" (see glyph).
Example
- 1. A petroglyph emerges the sands of the sahara in chad .
- 2. Newspaper rock recreation site offers a large petroglyph panel .
- 3. It resembles a petroglyph of some sort more than it resembles the " usual " crop circle design .
- 4. If a petroglyph can be found on cave walls , depicting spirals in the sky , then certainly a similar message would be passed down routinely in all cultures surviving a pole shift .