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

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

Stont :: Stonish (a.) Stony.

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

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

Decalcify :: Decalcify (v. t.) To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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