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Astonied :: Astonied (p. p.) Stunned; astonished. See Astony.

Stoniness :: Stonily (adv.) In a stony manner.

Lapillation :: Lapillation (n.) The state of being, or the act of making, stony..

Tophaceous :: Tophaceous (a.) Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

Lapidify :: Lapidify (v. t.) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

Mineralization :: Mineralization (n.) The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.

Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness..

Devitrification :: Devitrification (n.) The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products..

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Stont :: Stonish (a.) Stony.

Rock :: Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

Lapidescence :: Lapidescence (n.) A stony concretion.

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals..

Lapilli :: Lapilli (n. pl.) Volcanic ashes, consisting of small, angular, stony fragments or particles..

Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits..

Isis :: Isis (n.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea..

Fungian :: Fungian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Fungidae, a family of stony corals..

Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation..

Calculary :: Calculary (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.

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