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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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... of the principal forms through which the respective individuals have passed from the beginning of their tribe, and its great advantage is that it reveals a field of information which it was impossible for the rocks to retain; for the petrification of the ancient ancestors of all the different animal and vegetable species, which were soft, tender ...
— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott


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


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