Living fossilism

Synonyms for "living fossilism" (9 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (2)

Adjective(2 words)
ancientancient-trait retention idea

Strong matches (3)

Adjective(3 words)
archaicfossil-like persistencefossilism

Related words (4)

Adjective(4 words)
fossilism conceptmorphological stasismorphology preservation notionprehistoric

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

4 entries
biological theorydescriptive termevolutionary biology termevolutionary theory

More specific

11 entries
archaic morphologycoelacanthcomparative morphologyconserved morphologyginkgolatimeriamorphological stasispaleobiologyprehistoric featuressystematicstuatara

Collocations

11 entries
ancient form retentionancient morphologyarchaic traitsevolutionary stasisfossil morphologyfossilism conceptliving fossillong geological timemorphological conservatismmorphological stasisprehistoric features

Inflections

1 entries
living fossilisms

Derivations

1 entries
living fossil