Synonyms for fossil
ˈfɒs əlfos·sil

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1. dodo, fogy, fogey, fossilnoun

   someone whose style is out of fashion

   Synonyms:
   fogy, fogey, dodo

2. fossiladjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   fogy, fogey, dodo

3. fossiladjective

   characteristic of a fossil

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1. fossilnoun

   Synonyms:
   petrifaction

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1. fossilnoun

   Associated words:
   paleontology, paleontography, ichnology, fossiliferous, in situ

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1. List of paraphrases for "fossil":

   fossils, mineral, fossil-based, fossilized, fossil-fuel

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1. Daniel Field:

   It may have taken on the order of 100 years for the' fern spike' to begin, and about 1,000 years for forest communities to rebound, once forests were back, the ancestors of today's modern tree-dwelling birds could -- and did -- move into the trees. By a couple of millions of years after the asteroid impact, we have direct evidence of arboreal fossil birds.

2. Peter Larson:

   That was the most that any landowner had ever gotten (for a dinosaur fossil in the ground), we shook hands and he (Williams) was pretty excited about seeing it set up in the museum.

3. Yohannes Haile-Selassie:

   The new species is yet another confirmation that Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was not the only potential human ancestor species that roamed in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia during the middle Pliocene, current fossil evidence from the Woranso-Mille study area clearly shows that there were at least two, if not three, early human species living at the same time and in close geographic proximity.

4. De Haan:

   There's not much they can do aside from shifting policies and providing more clarity and certainty to the oil sector on the future of oil consumption, oil companies are hesitant to invest in raising production and building new capacity because the administration has openly, openly indicated that it will be pushing Americans away from consuming fossil fuels. And that certainly has an impact on the future viability of the oil sector. And I think that's why we probably won't see much meaningful improvement.

5. Evergreen Action co-founder Jamal Raad:

   He's not even about solving inflation because the major driver of inflation was gas prices, and he decided we should invest more in fossil fuels.