fossil

Adjective
  1. Characteristic of a fossil (synset 302741718)
Noun
  1. Someone whose style is out of fashion (synset 110042633)
    domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
    is a type of: golden ager, old person, oldster, senior citizen - an elderly person
    same as: dodo, fogey, fogy
  2. 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 (synset 109307495)
    is a type of: remains - any object that is left unused or still extant
    subtypes:
    • fucoid - a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order Fucales
    • belemnite - a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae
    • ammonite, ammonoid - one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks
    • guide fossil, index fossil - a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found
    • microfossil - a fossil that must be studied microscopically
    • wormcast - fossil trail of a worm

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