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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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