Fossil

Quick meaning: Fossil is a noun meaning The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.

Meaning

The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.

More Meanings

1. (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
2. (linguistics) A fossil word.
3. (figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
4. (figuratively, derogatory) An extremely old or outdated person.

Example Sentences

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

Within the Hepaticae two types of fossils can be distinguished: those with sufficient characters to assign them to an order and those with more obscure characters.

You know what, we’ve got a limited number of heartbeats in this world so if you’re only truly happy researching fossils and can make it work for you, you go for it.

With the permission of the Keeper of the fossil collection, therefore, the specimen was subjected to a further careful removal of the matrix in the requisite directions.

Word Forms

• fossils

Synonyms for fossil

Depending on context, synonyms include dotard, dodo, fogy, fogey.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fogy, fogey, dotard, dodo, fossilized, mineral.

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