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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fos-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɒs əl

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Définition of fossil

Origin :
  • 1610s, "any thing dug up;" 1650s (adj.) "obtained by digging," from French fossile (16c.), from Latin fossilis "dug up," from fossus, past participle of fodere "to dig," from PIE root *bhedh- "to dig, pierce."
  • Restricted noun sense of "geological remains of a plant or animal" is from 1736; slang meaning "old person" first recorded 1859. Fossil fuel (1835) preserves the earlier, broader sense.
  • noun organic remains of a previous time
Example sentences :
  • No, not a vestage of the fossil is there, not a skull, not a shinbone.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • If he turns his attention to fossil animals, he is a palaeontologist.
  • Extract from : « On the Study of Zoology » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • It was no more fossil than I am; but they call it fossil when it is dug up.
  • Extract from : « Heart of Darkness » by Joseph Conrad
  • Instead of which the fossil was what he always had been—just one too many.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • Their base is Copal, a fossil, resinous substance of vegetable origin.
  • Extract from : « Handwork in Wood » by William Noyes
  • Fossil—Fossell: this is a fossil, you see, and I'm called Fossell: and so he sends it to me.
  • Extract from : « Major Vigoureux » by A. T. Quiller-Couch
  • But on the whole it is astonishing how little we know of fossil whales.
  • Extract from : « More Science From an Easy Chair » by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
  • Even their half-digested remains have been preserved in fossil.
  • Extract from : « The Map of Life » by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
  • How his Companies could go on putting up with such a fossil for chairman was a marvel!
  • Extract from : « Five Tales » by John Galsworthy
  • There is no time when a fossil looks so well as when first exposed.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Betsey » by Hugh Miller

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