PETRIFACTION
\pˌɛtɹɪfˈakʃən], \pˌɛtɹɪfˈakʃən], \p_ˌɛ_t_ɹ_ɪ_f_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PETRIFACTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
By Princeton University
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the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.
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The state or condition of being petrified.
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That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation.
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Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.
By Oddity Software
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The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.
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The state or condition of being petrified.
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That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation.
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Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.
By Noah Webster.
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The process of changing animal or vegetable substance into stone; an animal or vegetable body changed into stone; a fossil.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Conversion into a stone-like substance.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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