a smooth, round stone that is found in or near water 鹅卵石;砾石 a pebble beach 卵石滩
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPebble is used before these nouns:- beach
Word Originlate Old English, recorded as the first element of papel-stān ‘pebble-stone’, pyppelrīpig ‘pebble-stream’, of unknown origin. The word is recorded in place names from the early 12th cent. onwards.