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trovant

trovant noun: a type of bulbous stone formation found in Romania, sometimes called a "living stone" or "living rock" because they are popularly believed to slowly grow, and to reproduce when pieces break off and become new concretions; whether they actually grow in size over time, and/or are concretions, is disputed.

trovant: a type of bulbous stone formation found in Romania, sometimes called a "living stone" or "living...
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Noun

trovant (plural trovants)

  1. A type of bulbous stone formation found in Romania, sometimes called a "living stone" or "living rock" because they are popularly believed to slowly grow, and to reproduce when pieces break off and become new concretions; whether they actually grow in size over time, and/or are concretions, is disputed.
    • The Cochirleni formation is mainly made of sands and quartzous sandstones, richly glauconitic, generally shaly, with trovants; the typical section lies in the Danube's cliff, from the Hinog Valley towards the south up to Cochirleni and on the Pestera-Cochirleni Valley up to Ivrinezu Mic.2015, Carmen Maftei, Extreme Weather and Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources, page 103
    • Trovants: the "living" stones of Romania formed as high porosity spherical sandstone concretions developed around a fossil. […] The trovant geological reservation at Costești, Romania, hold[s] a large and diverse in size and shape collection of trovants embedded in alluvial strata. A new 3D images...2023 April 13, Ezequiel F. Médici, Alejandro D. Otero, Album of Porous Media: Structure and Dynamics, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 36

Forms of trovant

pluraltrovants

Origin of trovant

Borrowed from Romanian trovant, coined by Romanian geologist Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci in 1907.

Questions about trovant

What does trovant mean?
Trovant means a type of bulbous stone formation found in Romania, sometimes called a "living stone" or "living rock" because they are popularly believed to slowly grow, and to reproduce when pieces break off and become new concretions; whether they actually grow in size over time, and/or are concretions, is disputed.
What part of speech is trovant?
Trovant is a noun.
What is the plural of trovant?
The plural of trovant is trovants.

Words near trovant in the dictionary

  1. trouvère
  2. trouvères
  3. Troux
  4. trovadoresque
  5. trovafloxacin
  6. trovant
  7. trovants
  8. Trovato
  9. Trovatos
  10. trove
  11. trover

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