Definitions
characteristic of a fossil
Word origin
From French fossile, from Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“to dig up”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“Within the Hepaticae two types of fossils can be distinguished: those with sufficient characters to assign them to an order and those with more obscure characters.”
“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Preserved ancient remains”6 letters
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