FOSSIL
\fˈɒsə͡l], \fˈɒsəl], \f_ˈɒ_s_əl]\
Definitions of FOSSIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
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Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
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A substance dug from the earth.
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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.
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A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
By Oddity Software
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Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
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Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
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A substance dug from the earth.
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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.
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A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
By Noah Webster.
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Any organic body, as an animal or plant, which by burial in the earth has become petrified or changed to stone; a person old-fashioned in his ideas.
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Pertaining to, of the nature of, or converted into, a fossil; dug from the earth.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal, fossil salt: pertaining to or resembling fossils; changed into stone; petrified; as, fossil shells, bones, or wood.
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A word which in its widest and literal sense means whatever is dug out of the earth, so that it includes all minerals and rocks, as well as the organic remains embedded in rocks, the former being the native fossils, the latter the extraneous fossils of older writers. It is now, however, restricted to designate the petrified forms of plants and animals which occur in the strata that compose the surface of our globe. Most of these fossil species, many of the genera, and some of the families, are extinct. When these remains are only partially fossilized, and occur in superficial or recent deposits, the term sub-fossil is employed.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Petrified; outworn; antiquated.
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A body, as the petrified form of a plant or an animal, preserved in earth or rock.
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A person or thing out of date.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Dug out of the earth; in the state of a fossil; petrified.
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A substance dug from the earth; a petrified plant or animal occurring in the strata of the earth's surface; anything organic gone to petrifaction. See Fosse.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A mineral dug out of the earth; the remains of plants and animals imbedded in the earth's crust and changed into a stony consistence.
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Dug out of the earth.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
