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coalify en · VERB

Etymology

From coal + -ify.

Meanings

  1. (of a fossil) To change into coal.
    • The fossils are produced from an approximately 40 cm thick, organic-fragment-rich clayey, sandy mudstone that is rich in coalified root traces, both horizontal and vertical, suggesting a saturated or water-logged anoxic deposit. 2015 July 9, “Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the Evolution of Ceratopsid Nasal Ornamentation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Forms

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coalified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
coalified Tense=Past lexicographic
coalifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
coalifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

charcoalize · coalification