PETRIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does petrification mean? 

• PETRIFICATION (noun)
  The noun PETRIFICATION has 1 sense:

1. the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape

  Familiarity information: PETRIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PETRIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

petrifaction; petrification

Hypernyms ("petrification" is a kind of...):

fossilisation; fossilization (the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone)

Derivation:

petrify (change into stone)