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coalify

coalify verb: to change into coal.

Verb

coalify (third-person singular simple present coalifies, present participle coalifying, simple past and past participle coalified)

  1. To change into coal.
    • The fossils are produced from an approximately 40 cm thick, organic-fragment-rich clayey, sandy mudstone that is rich in coalified root traces, both horizontal and vertical, suggesting a saturated or water-logged anoxic deposit.2015 July 9, “Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the...

Forms of coalify

third-person singular presentcoalifies
present participlecoalifying
past participlecoalified
pastcoalified

Origin of coalify

From coal + -ify.

Questions about coalify

What does coalify mean?
Coalify means to change into coal.
What part of speech is coalify?
Coalify is a verb.
What is the past tense of coalify?
The past tense of coalify is coalified.

Words near coalify in the dictionary

  1. coaliest
  2. coalification
  3. coalifications
  4. coalified
  5. coalifies
  6. coalify
  7. coalifying
  8. coalign
  9. coaligned
  10. coaligning
  11. coalignment

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