| 单词 | fossil wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfossil wood fossil wood n. fossilized or petrified wood; mineralized or compacted wood found in the earth; (formerly also) †a mineral substance resembling wood (obsolete). ΚΠ 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 111 Of Fossile wood and Coals. 1788 J. Hutton Theory Earth 234 In other specimens of this mineralizing operation, fossil wood..has been afterwards penetrated with a flinty substance. 1856 A. M. Murray Lett. from U.S. 295 We soon came to the petrified forest, which is said to be ten miles in extent. I found fine specimens of fossil-wood, whole trunks of trees. 1904 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 78 Taxoxylon Philpii..represents the first taxaceous fossil wood from Queensland. 1997 Rec. W. Austral. Mus. 18 263 Fossil wood associated with the pliosaurs contains..bivalve borings and hyphae of saprophytic fungi. < as lemmas |
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