Look up: fossil

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   fossil
   Any evidence of past life, including remains, traces, imprints as well as life history artifacts. Examples of artifacts include fossilized bird's nests, bee hives, etc.
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   Fossil
   Fossils are mineralized impressions or casts of ancient plants and animals (or their traces, like footprints). Fossils have been found on every continent on Earth. The word fossils comes from theLatin word fossilis, which means dug up (fossus is the past participle of the verb fodere, which means to dig).
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   Fossil
   Fossil is a city in Wheeler County Oregon, USA
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   fossil
   (Variation and inheritance) hardened remains or impression of an organism that existed in the geological past
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   Fossil
   Any remains, trace, or imprint of an organism that has been preserved in the Earth's crust.
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   fossil
   [adj] - characteristic of a fossil 2. [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
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   FOSSIL
   Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer
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   Fossil
   A dead organism that has been trapped in mud and whose body has not completely rotted away.
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   Fossil
   remains of organic materials, subsequently buried within the earth`s crust, often carbonized as a result of intense heat and / or pressure.
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    Fossil
    Fossils are the remains of plants and animals which lived on the Earth during the geological past and are now preserved in the rocks
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    fossil
    1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility. Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in C, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures. See dusty deck. 2. More ...
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    fossil
    any remains,impression or trace of an animal or plant of past geological ages that has been preserved in the earth`s crust Category: History, ethnology, manners and customs • (Of wood)preserved in mineralised or petrified form from a past geological age. Category: Botany and zoology
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    Fossil
    Fos'sil adjective [ Latin fossilis , from fodere to dig: confer French fossile . See Fosse .] 1. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. 2. (Paleon.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal , a resinous substance, first fou ...
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    Fossil
    Fos'sil noun 1. A substance dug from the earth. [ Obsolete] » Formerly all minerals were called fossils , but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. Ure. 2. (Paleon.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones bel ...
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    fossil
    1. Dug out of the eart; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. ... 2. <paleontology> Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. Whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth ...
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    fossil
    adjective characteristic of a fossil
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    Fossil
    `Fossils` (from Latin `fossus`, literally `having been dug up`) are the mineralized or otherwise preserved remains or traces (such as footprints) of animals, plants, and other organisms. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in `fossiliferous` (fossil-containing) rock formations and sedimentary layers (strata) is known as the `fossil record`. The study of fossils across geological time, how they were forme...
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    FOSSIL
    `FOSSIL` is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system. FOSSIL is an acronym for `Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer`. A `FOSSIL` driver is simply a communications device driver. They exist because in the early days of Fidonet, computer hardware was very diverse and there were no standards on how software was to communicate with the serial interface hardware. Initial develop...
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    Fossil
    • (a.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. • (n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. • (n.) A substance dug from the earth. • (a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil...
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    fossil
    remnant, impression, or trace of an animal or plant of a past geologic age that has been preserved in the Earth`s crust. The complex of data ... [38 related articles]
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    fossil
    fossil The remains, impression, or other evidence of a plant or an animal of a former geologic age; especially, parts that are petrified (converted to stone).
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    Fossil
    Geologically preserved remains of an organism that lived in the past.
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    FOSSIL
    The remains or traces of animals or plants preserved in rocks or sediments.
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    fossil
    
    1. (informal) someone whose style is out of fashion
    2. 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
    
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    fossil
    fossil, remains or imprints of plants or animals preserved from prehistoric times by the operation of natural conditions. Fossils are found in sedimentary rock, asphalt deposits, and coal and sometimes in amber and certain other materials. The scientific study of fossils is paleontology. Not until c...
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