petrification

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspetrifaction

   Broaderfossilization

Other forms of petrification

plural

petrifications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about petrification

What does petrification mean?

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

How many syllables are in petrification?

petrification has 6 syllables: pe-tri-fi-ca-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for petrification?

Close synonyms include petrifaction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is petrification a common word?

petrification is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.