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Fossil
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- 1 characteristic of a fossil wordnet
- 1 A small city, the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States.
- 1 The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
"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."
- 2 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 wordnet
- 3 Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
"He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record."
- 4 someone whose style is out of fashion wordnet
- 5 A fossil word.
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- 6 Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated. figuratively
- 7 An extremely old or outdated person. derogatory, figuratively
"I do not want to convey any disrespectful notion or slight when I call those good and learned men fossils, but my experience is that people are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same paths too persistently."
Etymology
From French fossile, from Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“I dig up”).
From the standard noun fossil, because of fossil finds in the area.
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