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What is "mineralized"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
mineralized

mineralized \mineralized\ adj.

  1. containing or impregnated with minerals; as, mineralized water; red stains that signify mineralized land.

  2. converted into a mineral.

    Syn: petrified.

Wiktionary
mineralized

  1. Converted to, or impregnated with minerals; petrified v

  2. (en-past of: mineralize)

WordNet
mineralized

  1. adj. containing or impregnated with minerals; "mineralized water"; "red stains that signify mineralized land"

  2. converted into a mineral; "petrified wood" [syn: petrified]

Usage examples of "mineralized".

This holds good equally for everything which in the body of living nature takes the form of mineralized deposits or coverings.

Whole trees, uprooted, their upraised branches stripped of leaves and bark and mineralized to a dead white, swirled like drowning men in the violent whirlpools.