Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A petrifaction of the human body or skeleton, or of parts of the body, produced by the incrusting action of calcareous waters, and therefore not a true fossil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun paleontology A
petrifaction of thehuman body , or of any portion of it.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek man + -lite.
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