Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of fossil is as below...

Nereites :: Nereites (n. pl.) Fossil tracks of annelids.

Lapidification :: Lapidification (n.) The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction.

Ichnolite :: Ichnolite (n.) A fossil footprint; an ichnite.

Fossilize :: Fossilize (v. t.) To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden..

Notornis :: Notornis (n.) A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct..

Ammonitiferous :: Ammonitiferous (a.) Containing fossil ammonites.

Ornithic :: Ornithic (a.) Of or pertaining to birds; as, ornithic fossils..

Eophyte :: Eophyte (n.) A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.

Fossilized :: Fossilized (imp. & p. p.) of Fossiliz.

Cephalaspis :: Cephalaspis (n.) A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points..

Rockwood :: Rockwood (n.) Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood..

Baculite :: Baculite (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite..

Astroite :: Astroite (n.) A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.

Ginglymodi :: Ginglymodi (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel..

Antholite :: Antholite (n.) A fossil plant, like a petrified flower..

Ichthyolite :: Ichthyolite (n.) A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish..

Gyracanthus :: Gyracanthus (n.) A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines..

Zamite :: Zamite (n.) A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia.

Ostracite :: Ostracite (n.) A fossil oyster.

Stegosauria :: Stegocephala (n. pl.) An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta..

Random Fonts

Most Popular