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

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

Madrepore :: Madrepore (n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral..

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.

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

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..

Stont :: Stonish (a.) Stony.

Brimstony :: Brimstony (a.) Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inlapidate :: Inlapidate (v. t.) To convert into a stony substance; to petrity.

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

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