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Microfossil

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A microscopic fossil, as of a pollen grain or unicellular organism.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. any microscopic fossil, such as that of a pollen grain

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a fossil that must be studied microscopically

Word Usage

"Fortunately we have completed all of the suit study trials, have collected a bunch of rock samples for the microfossil and extremophile studies, and have finished work on the telescope, so we are in good shape, but there's still plenty of data analysis to do on those projects and lots of GPS tracking and geotagging yet to do."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

fossil

Cross Reference

micropaleontology mesofossil

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Apostle apostle colossal docile fossil