Fossil

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.

   “With the permission of the Keeper of the fossil collection, therefore, the specimen was subjected to a further careful removal of the matrix in the requisite directions.”

2. isim Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.

   “He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”

3. isim A fossil word.
4. isim Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
5. isim An extremely old or outdated person.

   “I do not want to convey any disrespectful notion or slight when I call those good and learned men fossils, but my experience is that people are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same paths too persistently.”

6. özel isim A small city, the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States.