单词 | coalified |
释义 | coalifiedadj. Geology. Of plant remains: transformed into coal. See coalification n. ΚΠ 1818 Ann. Reg. 1817 Nat. Hist. 511/1 In one place is seen a coalified tree, if I may use the word. 1858 Trans. Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 3 26 The jets represent still more imperfectly coalified vegetable matter than any form of coal, containing mere vegetable remains. 1911 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 50 93 The coalified stems of Vertebraria on Joadja creek are humefied vegetable material charged with bitumen. 1971 Sci. Amer. May 34/1 Some [microfossils] have a darkened interior, as if cytoplasm within the spheroid had coalesced and become ‘coalified’. 2001 D. Edwards & C. Wellman in D. Edwards & P. G. Gensel Plants invade Land ii. 15 The earliest fossils are uncommon and are usually preserved as coalified compressions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1818 |
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