- 1. a. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. Source: opted
- 2. a. Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Source: opted
- 3. n. A substance dug from the earth. Source: opted
- 4. n. The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living. Source: opted
- 5. n. A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. Source: opted
- 6. adj. characteristic of a fossil Source: wordnet
- 7. n. someone whose style is out of fashion Source: wordnet
- 8. 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 Source: wordnet
- 9. Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whetherpetrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinoussubstance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, andapparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in theearth.-- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus.-- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime.-- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Raymond. Source: adambom
- 10. n:100 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 a. characteristic of a fossil Source: ecdict
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