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n. A remnant or trace of an organism of a past geologic age, such as a skeleton or leaf imprint, embedded and preserved in the earth's crust.

n. One, such as a rigid theory, that is outdated or antiquated.

n. Linguistics A word or morpheme that is used only in certain restricted contexts, as kempt in unkempt, but is otherwise obsolete.

n. Linguistics An archaic syntactic rule or pattern used only in idioms, as so be it.

adj. Characteristic of or having the nature of a fossil.

adj. Being or similar to a fossil.

adj. Belonging to the past; antiquated.

n. The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.

n. Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.

n. A fossilized term.

n. Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.

adj. Dug out of the earth

adj. preserved from a previous geological age; from deep wells; -- usually implying that the object so described has had its substance modified by long residence in the ground, but also used (as with fossil water) in cases where chemical composition is not altered.

adj. Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not.

n. A substance dug from the earth.

n. The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.

n. A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.

Dug out of the earth: as, fossil coal; fossil salt.

Pertaining to or resembling fossils; preserved by natural inhumation, as an organic body, in form and sometimes in texture: as, fossil shells, bones, or wood. See II., 2.

Figuratively, antiquated; superannuated; outgrown; belonging to a past epoch or discarded system: as, a fossil statesman; fossil manners or literature.

n. Any rock or mineral, or any mineral substance, whether of an organic or of an inorganic nature, dug out of the ground.

n. Specifically, in later geological and mineralogical use, anything which has been buried beneath the surface of the earth by natural causes or geological agencies, and which bears in its form or chemical composition the evidence that it is of organic origin.

n. Hence, figuratively, one who or something which is antiquated, or has fallen behind the progress of ideas; a person or thing of superannuated or discarded character or quality: as, a curious literary fossil.

n. 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

n. someone whose style is out of fashion

adj. characteristic of a fossil

"Only the woefully ignorant think that the term fossil is restricted to bones and other body parts that have become encased in stone."

fossil flax    fossil paper    fossil wood   

old person    golden ager    senior citizen    oldster   

fossil ivory    fossil bezoar    fossil farina    fossil flour    fossil cork    fossil screw    fossil charcoal    dyestone fossil    coprolite   

living fossil    ichnofossil    fossilisation    index fossil    fossil fuel    microfossil    mesofossil    trace fossil    fossiliferous    fossilization   

remains    fogy   

Apostle    apostle    colossal    docile    jostle    microfossil    postle   

extinct    mineral    marine    terrestrial    dinosaur    skeleton    prehistoric    aquatic    gigantic    organic