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Fossil logo #10101) Ammonite 2) Ammonitic 3) Ammonoid 4) Belemnite 5) Belemnitic 6) Bone 7) Dodo 8) Fogey 9) Fogy 10) Fucoid 11) Microfossil 12) Relic
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Fossil logo #10101) Antiquated person 2) Big name in timepieces 3) Big name in chronometermaking 4) Big name watches 5) Big name in chronometers 6) Big name in designer watches 7) Big name timepieces 8) Big name chronometers 9) Big name in watchmaking 10) Big name in timepiecemaking 11) Big name in watches 12) Brand of luxury chronometers
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  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 logo #22329Evidence of past life on earth. Can include the preserved hard and soft parts of plants and animals, tracks and burrows, whole organisms preserved intact in amber or tar, and fossilized dung. ANY evidence of life constitutes a fossil.
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Fossil logo #21002• (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 logo #20206Any remains, trace, or imprint of an organism that has been preserved in the Earth's crust.
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Fossil logo #20442A dead organism that has been trapped in mud and whose body has not completely rotted away.
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fossil logo #209731. 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 eart...
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fossil logo #22047Any remains or traces of a once-living plant or animal preserved in rocks (arbitrarily excludes Recent remains); any evidence of ancient life. Also used to refer to any object that existed in the geologic past and for which evidence remains (for example, a fossil waterfall).
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fossil logo #22291 Animal or plant remains of a previous age embedded and preserved in rock. Rocks containing fossils are described as fossiliferous.
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FOSSIL logo #10444Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer
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fossil logo #10444(Variation and inheritance) hardened remains or impression of an organism that existed in the geological past
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Fossil logo #20972Fos'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 ...
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Fossil logo #20972Fos'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 pla...
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fossil logo #23000 An impression, cast, outline, or track of any animal or plant that is preserved in rock after the original organic material is transformed or removed.
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fossil logo #21351(L: fodere=to dig; fossil=dug up) the remains of an organism, or the direct evidence of its presences, preserved in rocks. Usually only the hard parts are preserved. Fossilisation is the process by which fossils are formed. See time table.
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fossil logo #23002Any 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 logo #20008Any 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 logo #20974 adjective characteristic of a fossil
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fossil logo #21221Click images to enlargeCast, impression, or the actual remains of an animal or plant preserved in rock. Dead animals and plant remains that fell to the bottom of the sea bed or an inland lake were gradually buried under the accumulation of layers of sediment. Over millions of years, the sediment became sedimentary rock an...
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fossil logo #22327Evidence in rock of the presence of past life, such as a dinosaur bone, an ancient clam shell, or the footprint of a long-extinct animal.
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fossil logo #22346extinct in the Pleistocene (the previous geological period) or before
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Fossil logo #23001 Originally meaning anything dug from the ground, the term fossil is now restricted to naturally preserved evidence of an ancient organism. These include preserved parts of the original organism (such as bones, skin, hair, shell, teeth, leaves, bark, pollen), an imprint of a body part (such as the hollow left by a dissolved shell, or a footprint), ...
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Fossil logo #22999any trace of past life preserved in a rock (includes animal tracks & burrowsas well as shells, skeltons and impressions of soft flesh).
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fossil logo #21199any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc. · a markedly outdated or old-fashioned person or thing. · a linguistic form that is archaic except in certain restricted contexts, as nonce in for the nonce, or that follows a rule or pattern that is no longer productive, as the...
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