Synonyms for fossilized
fos·silized

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1. fossilized, fossilised, ossifiedadjective

   set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs

   "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"

   Synonyms:
   fossilised, ossified

   Antonyms:
   flexible

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1. fossilizedadjective

   Synonyms:
   petrified, antiquated, old-fashioned

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1. List of paraphrases for "fossilized":

   fossil, ossified, rigid

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1. Ken Farley:

   Perseverance's sophisticated science instruments will not only help in the hunt for fossilized microbial life, but also expand our knowledge of Martian geology and its past, present, and future, our science team has been busy planning how best to work with what we anticipate will be a firehose of cutting-edge data. That's the kind of' problem' we are looking forward to.

2. Phillip Barden:

   Fossilized behavior is exceedingly rare, predation( the act of predator attacking prey) especially so, as paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.

3. Rick Potts:

   When our team determined the age of the Nyayanga evidence, the perpetrator of the tools became a ‘whodunnit’ in my mind. There are several possibilities, and except for fossilized hand bones wrapped around a stone tool, the originator of the early Oldowan may be an unknown for a long time.

4. Holly Woodward:

   To me, its always amazing to find that if you have something like a huge fossilized dinosaur bone, its fossilized on the microscopic level as well, and by comparing these fossilized microstructures to similar features found in modern bone, we know they provide clues to metabolism, growth rate, and age.

5. Professor Long:

   In all my years as a kid collecting fossilized shark teeth around Victorian sites (I had over 500 specimens), I only ever found one half of a large megalodon tooth.