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US
/ˈfɑsəˌɫaɪz/
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VERB
- become mentally inflexible
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convert to a fossil
The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone
How To Use fossilize In A Sentence
- Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
- Today more than a dozen transitional whale fossils have been unearthed - an excellent series for such rarely fossilized animals.
- Their hypothesis can be tested by the discovery of fossilized stomach contents for Pakicetus.
- Sarah Pickin, 23, spotted the ancient piece of "confectionery" during a dig in north-west Finland, but had to check with colleagues whether her hunch was correct or if it was in fact a fossilised piece of animal dung. Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum | Impact Lab
- Only a few families and genera are known; this appears to have been a small group, or alternatively to have frequented areas where they would not have easily fossilized.
- • Giving certainty of funding when long-term investment is needed but does not fossilise funding at the expense of innovation; Archive 2008-06-01
- Fossilized spinnerets (the organs that spit out the spider silk) that occur in Middle Devonian rocks in Schoharie County, New York, show that spiders have been making silk for at least 380 million years.
- Now a team of paleontologists has found a fossilized arthropod they're betting is an early member of the subphylum Crustacea.
- When the bones were brought to the Montana State University's lab, it was noticed that ‘some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.’
- Morphological species are important in palaeontology, for interbreeding ability does not fossilize.