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Petrification

noun
1.
The process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape.  Synonym: petrifaction.





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... glimpses of other towns that had fallen under the strange spell of the petrification. Some were larger and some smaller than the one they ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood


Words linked to "Petrification" :   fossilisation, fossilization, petrify, petrifaction


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