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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..

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

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

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

Stont :: Stonish (a.) Stony.

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

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

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.

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

Stoniness :: Stonily (adv.) In a stony manner.

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..

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

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

Hydrocorallia :: Hydrocorallia (n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora..

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

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

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

Loy :: Loy (n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands..

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

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

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