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Petrifaction

noun

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

A rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form.

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"Petrifaction" Quotes from Famous Books

... footprints of death. Where blankness and bleakness seem to reign, a tiny life springs in mosses, rich with promise of better things. Long forked tongues of green are lapping up the dreary wastes, and will presently overpower them with its vivid tints. Even amid the blanched petrifaction of the Silver Grove fresh growths are creeping, and the day is not far distant that shall see those pale statues overtopped, submerged, lost in an emerald sea. Even among the rocks, the strife rages. Some mysterious principle inheres in the insensate rock, whose ...

— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton

... gray thing came at her. Into the rushing of her ears broke thudding sounds. The thing leaped up. A horrible petrifaction suddenly made stone of Carley. Then she saw a gray mantlelike object cast aside to disclose the dark form of ...

— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey

... and inveterate man-hater. She has no particular love for women, indeed, and trusts nobody but Mrs. Saxby, her maid. I rather like Mrs. Saxby. She is not quite so far gone in petrifaction as Aunt, although she gets a little stonier every year. I expect the process will soon begin on me, but it hasn't yet. My flesh and blood are still unreasonably warm and ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

Words linked to "Petrifaction" : petrify, petrification, stone, rock, fossilization, fossilisation