Fossil+remains

  • 1Fossil, Oregon — Infobox Settlement official name = Fossil, Oregon settlement type = City nickname = motto = imagesize = 250px image caption = Main Street image image mapsize = 250px map caption = Location in Oregon mapsize1 = map caption1 = subdivision type =… …

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  • 2Fossil Parks of India — The Geological Survey of India (GSI) currently maintains two protected areas bearing rich fossil deposits. * Shivalik Fossil Park, near Saketi, Himachal Pradesh. The site is notable for its life size models of the vertebrates that might have… …

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  • 3remains — /rəˈmeɪnz/ (say ruh maynz) plural noun 1. that which remains or is left; a remnant. 2. miscellaneous, fragmentary, or other writings collected after the author s death. 3. traces of some quality, condition, etc. 4. that which remains of a person… …

  • 4Fossil — Fos sil, n. 1. A substance dug from the earth. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Note: Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. Ure. [1913 Webster] 2.… …

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  • 5fossil fuel — fossil fuels also fossil fuel N MASS Fossil fuel is fuel such as coal or oil that is formed from the decayed remains of plants or animals …

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  • 6fossil — [fäs′əl] n. [Fr fossile < L fossilis, dug out, dug up < fossus, pp. of fodere, to dig up < IE * bhedh , to dig in the earth > Welsh bedd, grave, OE bedd, BED] 1. Obs. any rock or mineral dug out of the earth 2. any hardened remains or …

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  • 7fossil — 1610s (n.) any thing dug up; 1650s (adj.) obtained by digging, from Fr. fossile (16c.), from L. fossilis dug up, from fossus, pp. of fodere to dig, from PIE root *bhedh to dig, pierce. Restricted noun sense of geological remains of a plant or… …

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  • 8fossil — [n] organic remains of a previous time deposit, eolith, impression, neolith, paleolith, petrifaction, reconstruction, relic, skeleton, specimen, trace; concepts 429,470,509 …

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  • 9fossil — ► NOUN 1) the remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form. 2) humorous an antiquated person or thing. DERIVATIVES fossiliferous adjective fossilization (also fossilisation) noun… …

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  • 10fossil fuel — ► NOUN ▪ a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms …

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