Noun: petrifact
| Singular | petrifact |
| Plural | petrifacts |
Sample Sentences
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The whole scene was littered with petrifacts of different sizes and kinds, enormous trees, weighing tons, bared of their branches, overthrown and turned to stone. [1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 132:]
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Her long hair, whiter than snow at normal times, had been combed out neatly and tied at the back. Illuminated by the sunlight, it was no longer like snow—but a petrifact, a diamond. [2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4:]
Nouns inflected like petrifact
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin petra (“stone”) + (arte)fact. See: Latin Nouns '
petra'.