Definition of "menhir" [men•hir]

• See standing stone. (noun)

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• "She was eliminated after spelling the word menhir wrong."
• "Lying also prostrate on the ground, by the side of it, is a smaller menhir, which is, however, above 30 feet long."
• "Moreover, in the departments of Aveyron, Tarn, and Hérault have been found what are known as menhir-statues, upright pillars of stone roughly shaped into human semblance at the top; they are of two types, the one clearly female and the other with no breasts, but always with a collar or baldric."