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fos·silized
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Princeton's WordNet
fossilized, fossilised, ossifiedadjective
set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
"obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
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fossilizedadjective
In a state of fossilization; preserved in rock.
Webster Dictionary
Fossilized
of Fossilize
Fossilizedadjective
converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fossilized in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fossilized in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of fossilized in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.
Previously, the oldest widely accepted fossilized green algae was about 800 million years old, this work confirms what many have expected based on the existing, though sparse fossil record, which is that green algae likely existed about a billion years ago.
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.
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