fossil as a noun: - 1
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as an adjective: - 1
fossil
noun
1 fossil
Someone whose style is out of fashion.
synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy.
Roget 323:
hardness
etc.
adj.;
rigidity;
renitence†,
renitency;
inflexibility,
temper,
callosity,
durity†.
induration,
petrifaction;
lapidification†,
lapidescence†;
vitrification,
ossification;
crystallization.
stone,
pebble,
flint,
marble,
rock,
fossil,
crag,
crystal,
quartz,
granite,
adamant;
bone,
cartilage;
hardware;
heart of oak,
block,
board,
deal board;
iron,
steel;
cast iron,
decarbonized iron,
wrought iron;
nail;
brick,
concrete;
cement.
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Dutch: onderontwikkeld, oude zeur, walghvogel
2 fossil
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.
Dutch: fossiel
Polish: skamieniałość, skamielina
adjective
1 fossil
Characteristic of a fossil.
Roget 124:
old,
ancient,
antique;
of long standing,
time-honored,
venerable;
elder,
eldest;
firstborn.
prime;
primitive,
primeval,
primigenous†;
paleolontological,
paleontologic,
paleoanthropological,
paleoanthropic†,
paleolithic,
primordial,
primordinate†;
aboriginal
etc.
(beginning)
66;
diluvian†,
antediluvian;
protohistoric†;
prehistoric;
antebellum,
colonial,
precolumbian;
patriarchal,
preadamite†;
paleocrystic†;
fossil,
paleozoolical,
paleozoic,
preglacial†,
antemundane†;
archaic,
classic,
medieval,
Pre-Raphaelite,
ancestral,
black-letter.
immemorial,
traditional,
prescriptive,
customary,
whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary;
inveterate,
rooted.
antiquated,
of other times,
rococo,
of the old school,
after-age,
obsolete;
out of date,
out of fashion,
out of it;
stale,
old-fashioned,
behind the age;
old-world;
exploded;
gone out,
gone by;
passe,
run out;
senile
etc.
128;
time worn;
crumbling
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
secondhand.
old as the hills,
old as Methuselah,
old as Adam†,
old as history.
[geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)]
Archeozoic
[5,000,000,000],
Proterozoic
[1,500,000,000],
Paleozoic
[600,000,000],
Mesozoic
[220,000,000],
Cenozoic
[70,000,000].
[geological periods]
Precambrian,
Cambrian
[600,000,000],
Ordovician
[500,000,000],
Silurian
[440,000,000],
Devonian
[400,000,000],
Mississippian
[350,000,000],
Pennsylvanian
[300,000,000],
Permian
[270,000,000],
Triassic
[220,000,000],
Jurassic
[180,000,000],
Cretaceous
[135,000,000],
Tertiary
[70,000,000],
Paleogene
[70,000,000],
Neocene
[25,0000,000],
Quaternary
[1,000,000].
[geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)]
Paleocene,
Eocene,
Oligocene,
Miocene,
Pliocene,
Pleistocene,
Recent.
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Polish: skamieniały
Moby thesaurus: Methuselah, afterglow, afterimage, ancient manuscript, antediluvian, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, back number, balance, butt, butt end, candle ends, cave painting, chaff, conservative, dad, debris, detritus, dodo, elder, end, eolith, fag end, filings, fogy, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, has-been, holdover, husks, leavings, leftovers, longhair, matriarch, mezzolith, microlith, mid-Victorian, mossback, neolith, odds and ends, offscourings, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, orts, paleolith, parings, patriarch, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, pop, pops, rags, reactionary, refuse, regular old fogy, relic, relics, reliquiae, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruin, ruins, rump, sawdust, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, square, starets, stick-in-the-mud, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, trace, traditionalist, vestige, waste ... show more.
fossils
noun
Roget 357:
organized world,
organized nature;
living nature,
animated nature;
living beings;
organic remains,
fossils.
protoplasm,
cytoplasm,
protein;
albumen;
structure
etc.
329;
organization,
organism.
[Science of living beings]
biology;
natural history,
organic chemistry,
anatomy,
physiology;
zoology
etc.
368;
botany;
microbiology,
virology,
bacteriology,
mycology
etc.
369;
naturalist.
archegenesis
etc.
(production)
161†;
antherozoid†,
bioplasm†,
biotaxy†,
chromosome,
dysmeromorph†;
ecology,
oecology;
erythroblast [Physio.],
gametangium†,
gamete,
germinal matter,
invagination [Biol.];
isogamy†,
oogamy†;
karyaster†;
macrogamete†,
microgamete†;
metabolism,
anabolism,
catabolism;
metaplasm†,
ontogeny,
ovary,
ovum,
oxidation,
phylogeny,
polymorphism,
protozoa,
spermary†,
spermatozoon,
trophoplasm†,
vacuole,
vertebration†,
zoogloea†,
zygote.
Darwinism,
neo-Darwinism,
Lamarkism,
neoLamarkism,
Weismannism.
morphology,
taxonomy.
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Roget 362:
corpse,
corse†,
carcass,
cadaver,
bones,
skeleton,
dry bones;
defunct,
relics,
reliquiae [Lat.],
remains,
mortal remains,
dust,
ashes,
earth,
clay;
mummy;
carrion;
food for worms,
food for fishes;
tenement of clay this mortal coil.
shade,
ghost,
manes.
organic remains,
fossils.
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