Definitions for fossils

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fossils fos·sil

Spelling: [fos-uh l]

IPA: /ˈfɒs əl/

Fossils is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in fossils (filosss).

Definitions for fossils

noun

1. any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
2. a markedly outdated or old-fashioned person or thing.
3. a linguistic form that is archaic except in certain restricted contexts, as nonce in for the nonce, or that follows a rule or pattern that is no longer productive, as the sentence So be it.
4. any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
5. a markedly outdated or old-fashioned person or thing.
6. a linguistic form that is archaic except in certain restricted contexts, as nonce in for the nonce, or that follows a rule or pattern that is no longer productive, as the sentence So be it.

adjective

1. of the nature of a fossil:
2. belonging to a past epoch or discarded system; antiquated:
3. of the nature of a fossil:
4. belonging to a past epoch or discarded system; antiquated:

Origin of fossils

1555-65; Latin fossilis dug up (Cf. fodere to dig); replacing earlier fossile French

Examples for fossils

If he turns his attention to fossil animals, he is a palaeontologist.

The black market trade in fossils stolen from the richest Cretaceous fossil locality in the world has prompted a crackdown.

No, not a vestage of the fossil is there, not a skull, not a shinbone.

They believe that companies trafficking in fossil fuels will eventually face financial problems.

But when it comes to energy, divestment from coal or fossil fuels is much more symbolic—and not very meaningful.

It was no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossil when it is dug up.

Under Mongolian law, any fossil specimen found in the Gobi Desert must stay in the possession of a Mongolian institution.

Their base is Copal, a fossil, resinous substance of vegetable origin.

Instead of which the fossil was what he always had been—just one too many.

And given the current glut in fossil fuels, it might even be a better economic bet to wait a few years.

No fossils have been found in these strata and their age is uncertain.

From this it was only a step to the earth's strata, fossils, crystals—a fresh lecture.

fossils, skulls, and hominid exhibitions throughout the caves are quite something.

He carried heavy loads, too, when he went searching for minerals and fossils.

On one of the floors below the fossils, they have a reconstructed dodo.

What is the nature of the fossils in the earliest layers of stratified rock?

And if the fossils go to a private collector, they are effectively lost to paleontology and the public for good.

The black market trade in fossils stolen from the richest Cretaceous fossil locality in the world has prompted a crackdown.

Notwithstanding its great thickness, this formation is very barren in fossils.

Tertullian asserted that fossils resulted from the flood of Noah.