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Stony :: Stony (superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Actinaria :: Actinaria (n. pl.) A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not..

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

Astony :: Astony (v. t.) To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay.

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..

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

Gromwell :: Gromwell (n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera..

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

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

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