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

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..

Stonework :: Stoneweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets..

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

Astonying :: Astonying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aston.

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

Heliopora :: Heliopora (n.) An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.

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

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..

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..

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

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

Lapidify :: Lapidify (v. i.) To become stone or stony.

Petrous :: Petrous (a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone..

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

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

Stonish :: Stoniness (n.) The quality or state of being stony.

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

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.

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