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Definitions of fossil in various dictionaries:
noun - someone whose style is out of fashion
noun - the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
adj - characteristic of a fossil
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| The trilobite is the state one of these of both Ohio & Wisconsin; it lived there when the area was underwater |
| Derived from Latin meaning "dug up", it's the remains of a plant or animal preserved in rock |
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| Linguistics A word or morpheme that is used only in certain restricted contexts, as kempt in unkempt, but is otherwise obsolete. |
| Linguistics An archaic syntactic rule or pattern used only in idioms, as so be it. |
| Characteristic of or having the nature of a fossil. |
| Being or similar to a fossil. |
| Belonging to the past antiquated. |
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A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood, oil, coal, and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record. * Paleontology is the study of fossils: their age, method of formation, and evolutionary significance. Specimens are usually considered to be fossils if they are over 10,000 years old. The oldest fossils are from around 3.48 billion years old to 4.1 billion years old. The observation in the 19th century that certain fossils were associated with certain rock strata led to the recognition of a geological timescale and the relative ages of different fossils. The development of radiometric dating techniques in the early 20th century allowed scientists to quantitatively measure the absolute ages of rocks a |