petrification / ˌpɛ trəˈfæk ʃən /

石化石化现象石化作用岩化

petrification 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  2. something petrified.

petrification 近义词

petrification

等同于 solidification

更多petrification例句

  1. While wandering through the valley of the Clearwater and the adjacent hills, I was much struck with the wonders of petrification.
  2. One day the Major met a company of miners, and related to them the wonderful specimens of petrification seen by him that day.
  3. When she departed, as she did in a state bordering on petrification, he came forward to the bedside.
  4. He would be freed, for ever, from the petrification of the grey, cramping little city.
  5. This is a startling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of petrification.