Fossil

Definitions

1. The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
2. A small city, the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States.
3. Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
4. A fossil word.
5. Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
   figuratively
6. An extremely old or outdated person.
   derogatory, figuratively

Equivalents

39 more languages

العربيةأُحْفُورَةمتحجّرمستحاثة

Беларускаявыкапеньскамяне́ласць

Bosanskifosilfosilniфосилфосилни+ 1 more

Catalàfòssil

Češtinafosiliefosilnízkamenělina

Danskfossil

Ελληνικάαπολίθωμα

Esperantofosilio

فارسیسنگوارهفُسیل

Suomifossiilifossiilinen

Gaeilgeiontaise

Galegofósil

हिन्दीजीवाश्म

Hrvatskifosilfosilniфосилфосилни+ 1 more

Bahasa Indonesiafosil

Íslenskasteingervingur

Italianofossile

日本語化石

ქართულინამარხი

한국어화석

Kurdîfosîl

Latinafossilis

Te Reo Māorimātātoka

Македонскифосил

Bahasa Melayufosil

Nederlandsfossiel

Polskikopalnypróchnoskamielinaskamieniałość+ 1 more

Portuguêsfóssil

Românăfosila

Русскийископаемоеокаменелость

Српскиfosilfosilniфосилфосилни+ 1 more

Svenskafossil

Kiswahilikisukuku

ไทยซากดึกดำบรรพ์ฟอสซิล

Tagaloghayto

Türkçefosiltaşıl

Українськавикопнийкопалина

Tiếng Việthoá thạch

Yorùbáàkẹ̀kù

Examples

“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.”

“Within the Hepaticae two types of fossils can be distinguished: those with sufficient characters to assign them to an order⟳ and those with more obscure characters.”

“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record⟳.”

“You know⟳ what, we’ve got a limited number⟳ of heartbeats in this world so if you’re only truly happy researching fossils and can make⟳ it work⟳ for you, you go for it.”

“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.”

“All at once there was a tapping at the window pane. Atherton was staring at us from without. He shouted through the glass, ‘Come⟳ out of that, you fossils! — I’ve news for you!’”

““[…] What have⟳ you done with your old fossil?” “M. Poirot has gone to Paris,” I replied coldly. “And I can tell⟳ you, M. Giraud, that he is anything but an old fossil. He has solved many cases that have⟳ completely baffled the English police.””

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