fossil

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒsl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑsl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɒsəl
• Hyphenation: fos‧sil

fossil (plural fossils)

1. The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
2. (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
   • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 February 2012, page 162:

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

3. (linguistics) A fossil word.
4. (figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
5. (figuratively) An extremely old or outdated person.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     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!’

• coprolite
• Fossil (Oregon)

From Latin fossilis, from fossa (“ditch”).

fossil

1. fossil (noun modifier), fossilised (UK), fossilized

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From New Latin fossile.

fossil n (singular definite fossilet, plural indefinite fossiler)

1. fossil

From Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“I dig up”).

fossil (strong nominative masculine singular fossiler, not comparable)

1. fossil

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• “fossil” in Duden online
• “fossil” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Latin fossilis.

fossil (neuter singular fossilt, definite singular and plural fossile)

1. fossilised (UK), fossilized, or Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (noun modifier: e.g. fossil fuels)

From New Latin [Term?].

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1. a Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (fossilised remains of an animal or plant)

• levende fossil

• “fossil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin fossilis.

fossil (neuter singular fossilt, definite singular and plural fossile)

1. fossilised (UK), fossilized, or Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (noun modifier)

From New Latin.

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• “fossil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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fossil

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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fossil n

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• dinosauriefossil
• fossilbränsle
• fossilerad
• fossilförande
• fossilisation
• fossilisera
• fossilisering

• fossil in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)