Trilobites fossils are arthropods, or joint-footed animals, with a segmented body of hinged plates and shields. They could curl up into a ball for protection, sometimes fossilizing as a "rolled" trilobite.
Source: tatoeba (6920724)
Fossilizing
Synonyms for "fossilizing" (21 found)
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15 entriescultural processfigurative descriptorfossil formationgeological processinertiaintellectual inertialanguage learninglinguisticslinguistics conceptmetaphorical termorganizational processpreservationpreservation processsecond language acquisition termsocial process
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14 entriescarbonizationinstitutional ossificationlexical fossilizationmineral replacementmorphosyntactic fossilizationossified attitudeossified institutionpermineralizationpetrificationphonological fossilizationpractice ossificationrigidificationsyntactic fossilizationtheory ossification
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13 entriesfossilizing activityfossilizing conditionsfossilizing effectfossilizing environmentfossilizing environmentsfossilizing evidencefossilizing materialfossilizing mechanismfossilizing mineralsfossilizing processfossilizing ratefossilizing remainsfossilizing stage
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