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Petrosal :: Petrosal (a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone..

Madreporaria :: Madreporaria (n. pl.) An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa..

Sclerodermata :: Sclerodermata (n. pl.) The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

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

Tabulata :: Tabulata (n. pl.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

Matrix :: Matrix (n.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.

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

Calcification :: Calcification (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue..

Petrify :: Petrify (v. i.) Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate..

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..

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..

Holosiderite :: Holosiderite (n.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

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

Stony :: Stony (superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.

Petrify :: Petrify (v. t.) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance..

Lithoidal :: Lithoidal (a.) Like a stone; having a stony structure.

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

Stont :: Stonish (a.) Stony.

Lithophyte :: Lithophyte (n.) A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals..

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..

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