Petrification
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
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- petrifaction
- plural
- Petrifications
- possessive
- Petrification's
- pluralpossessive
- Petrifications'