Petrifaction
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- petrification
- plural
- Petrifactions
- possessive
- Petrifaction's
- pluralpossessive
- Petrifactions'