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Meaning of जीवाश्म in English

  • Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
  • Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
  • A substance dug from the earth.
  • 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.
  • A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
  • of Fossilize
  • Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.
  • of Fossa
  • A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.
  • Containing or composed of fossils.
  • The process of becoming fossil.
  • The science or state of fossils.
  • The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
  • The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  • Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
  • A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.
  • Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
  • Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.

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