Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind.
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Fossilize
Synonyms for "fossilize" (36 found)
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25 translations across 14 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- fossilisoida verb (to make into fossil)
- fossilisoitua verb (to become a fossil)
French
1 entries- fossiliser verb (to make into fossil)
German
2 entries- fossilisieren verb (to make into fossil)
- fossilisieren verb (to become a fossil)
Hebrew
2 entries- אִבֵּן verb (to make into fossil)
- הִתְאַבֵּן verb (to become a fossil)
Hungarian
1 entries- megkövesedik verb (to become a fossil)
Italian
2 entries- fossilizzare verb (to make into fossil)
- fossilizzare verb (to become a fossil)
Japanese
2 entries- 化石させる verb (to make into fossil)
- 化石する verb (to become a fossil)
Māori
2 entries- whakamātātoka verb (to make into fossil)
- whakamātātoka verb (to become a fossil)
Occitan
2 entries- fossilizar verb (to make into fossil)
- se fossilizar verb (to become a fossil)
Polish
2 entries- kostnieć verb (to become a fossil)
- skostnieć verb (to become a fossil)
Romanian
2 entries- fosiliza verb (to make into fossil)
- se fosiliza verb (to become a fossil)
Spanish
2 entries- fosilizar verb (to make into fossil)
- fosilizar verb (to become a fossil)
Swedish
1 entries- fossilisera verb (to make into fossil)
Turkish
2 entries- fosilleşmek verb (to become a fossil)
- fosilleştirmek verb (to make into fossil)
Sample sentences
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Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
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I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.
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Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
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