单词 | permineralized |
释义 | permineralizedadj. Geology and Palaeontology. Fossilized as a result of permineralization. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > concretion or petrifaction > [adjective] concretionary1830 permineralized1915 1915 C. Schuchert Text-bk. Geol. II. xvii. 436 The great majority of fossil specimens preserve more or less of the original hard or mineral substance of the individual plant or animal, and to this may have been added in the organic interstices more or less of other mineral substances during the process of fossilization, forming the permineralized fossils. 1958 C. L. Fenton & M. A. Fenton Fossil Bk. 7 (caption) Permineralized corals that preserve both shape and structure. 1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field iv. 67 Rarely, cells that were once living have also become permineralized with the preservation of cytologic structures. 2001 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 162 221 An in situ permineralized stem provides information about wood structure and suggests that the plant was a canopy tree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1915 |
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