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lapidescences

lapidescences is the plural of lapidescence.

Meaning of lapidescence

Noun

lapidescence (countable and uncountable, plural lapidescences)

  1. The state or quality of being lapidescent.
  2. The process of hardening into a stone substance.
    • The process of lapidescence had begun: the world was turning him into a monument to himself.1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter
  3. A stony concretion.

Questions about lapidescences

What is lapidescences the plural of?
Lapidescences is the plural of lapidescence.

Words near lapidescences in the dictionary

  1. lapidator
  2. lapidators
  3. lapideous
  4. lapides lazuli
  5. lapidescence
  6. lapidescences
  7. lapidescent
  8. Lapidian
  9. lapidicolous
  10. lapidific
  11. lapidification

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