charcoalify

English

Etymology

charcoal +‎ -ify.

Verb

charcoalify (third-person singular simple present charcoalifies, present participle charcoalifying, simple past and past participle charcoalified)

1. Alternative form of charcoalize
   • 2000, Russell Lindsay Hall, Paul Lawrence Smith, editors, Advances in Jurassic Research 2000: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on the Jurassic System, Trans Tech Publications, page 507:

     Periodic wildfire swept through the seasonally dry heaths, consuming the more flammable components of the vegetation such as conifers but charcoalifying the thick, heavily cutinized and comparatively resin-deficient Phlebopteris fronds.

   • 2001, A. C. Scott, “3.2.3: Preservation By Fire”, in Derek E. G. Briggs, Peter R. Crowther, editors, Palaeobiology II (paperback), Blackwell, published 2003, page 279:

     Fig. 3.2.3.1 […] (d,e) Angiosperm wood charcoalified by hot ash fall, Montserrat;

   • 2010, Angela L. Coe, Geological Field Techniques, Wiley-Blackwell, page 85:

     Wood and leaves are more likely to decay but even these can have their preservation potential increased dramatically by being charcoalified by partial burning prior to burial.