petrifact

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petrifact

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From Latin petra (“stone”) + (arte)fact.

noun petrifacts

An object made of stone, especially one formed from petrifaction. 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.

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@misc{petrifact_2026,
  title = {petrifact},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/petrifact},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}