About The Word Fossil
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Fossil
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What's The Definition Of Fossil?
[n] the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
[n] (informal) someone whose style is out of fashion [adj] characteristic of a fossil Synonyms | Synonyms for Fossil: dodo | fogey | fogy Related Terms | Find terms related to Fossil: afterglow | afterimage | ancient manuscript | antediluvian | antique | antiquity | archaism | artifact | back number | balance | butt | butt end | candle ends | cave painting | chaff | conservative | dad | debris | detritus | dodo | elder | end | eolith | fag end | filings | fogy | fud | fuddy-duddy | granny | has-been | holdover | husks | leavings | leftovers | longhair | matriarch | Methuselah | mezzolith | microlith | mid-Victorian | mossback | neolith | odds and ends | offscourings | old believer | old crock | old dodo | old fogy | old liner | old man | old poop | old woman | old-timer | orts | paleolith | parings | patriarch | petrification | petrified forest | petrified wood | petroglyph | plateaulith | pop | pops | rags | reactionary | refuse | regular old fogy | relic | relics | reliquiae | remainder | remains | remnant | residue | residuum | rest | roach | rubbish | ruin | ruins | rump | sawdust | scourings | scraps | shadow | shavings | square | starets | stick-in-the-mud | straw | stubble | stump | survival | sweepings | trace | traditionalist | vestige | waste See Also | ammonite | ammonoid | belemnite | fucoid | microfossil | old person | oldster | remains | senior citizen | wormcast Fossil In Webster's Dictionary \Fos"sil\, a. [L. fossilis, fr. fodere to dig: cf. F.
fossile. See {Fosse}.]
1. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
2. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in
rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants,
shells.
{Fossil copal}, a resinous substance, first found in the blue
clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable
resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth.
{Fossil cork}, {flax}, {paper}, or {wood}, varieties of
amianthus.
{Fossil farina}, a soft carbonate of lime.
{Fossil ore}, fossiliferous red hematite. --Raymond.
\Fos"sil\, n. 1. A substance dug from the earth. [Obs.] Note: Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. --Ure. 2. (Paleon.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living. 3. A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. [Colloq.] |
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