fossil

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /ˈfɒsl̩/ / /ˈfɑsl̩/

Etymology: From the standard noun fossil, because of fossil finds in the area.

Etymology: From French fossile, from Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“to dig up”).

The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
“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.”
Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
“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.”
A fossil word.
Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
An extremely old or outdated person.
“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!’”