Meaning of FOSSIL in English

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Meaning of FOSSIL 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.

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