Bible Dictionaries
Lapidescent

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

(2):

(n.) Any substance which has the quality of petrifying other bodies, or of converting or being converted into stone.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lapidescent'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lapidescent.html. 1828.