silicified

adj — 2 senses

silicified

adj
1

Combined with silicon.

2

Impregnated with silica; petrified.

  • Some of the best evidence of what happened comes from Germany, where the silicified trunks of about 80 species of trees have been found preserved in what was once a great lagoon fringing the northern slopes of the rising Alps.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 99:
Derived terms
desilicified, nonsilicified, unsilicified

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