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UK
/fˈɒsəl/
]
[ US /ˈfɑsəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɑsəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- someone whose style is out of fashion
- 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
ADJECTIVE
- characteristic of a fossil
How To Use fossil In A Sentence
- However, the Seismosaurus fossil found with the most gastroliths held only 15 kg of stones, the largest no bigger than a grapefruit.
- We have virtually no fossils of tropical fleshy algae, especially the small soft epilithic species that characterize primary productivity on modern reefs.
- On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.
- The decapod fossils are preserved in remarkable detail as molds and as body fossils.
- Grimaldi studies insect fossils in both amber and stone.
- According to bury circumstance judgement, put possibly inside circumjacent bigger range in more and dinosaurian fossil, disentomb foreground is very hopeful.
- Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
- Turtles were considered to be living anapsids although there was a significant temporal gap between the last anapsid reptile fossil and the first turtle fossil. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
- A key reason was that predictions of fossil fuel use rely heavily on economic predictions, which have been shown to be almost useless. Times, Sunday Times
- Coal is on its way out and, while gas importantly emits the least carbon of any fossil fuel, it cannot carry the load on its own. Times, Sunday Times