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		Definition of fossilized in English: fossilized(British fossilised) adjective ˈfɒs(ə)lʌɪzdˈfɑsəˌlaɪzd 1Preserved to become a fossil.  Example sentencesExamples -  Their hypothesis can be tested by the discovery of fossilized stomach contents for Pakicetus.
 -  The varicolored bands running across the hills are fossilized soils.
 -  Vertebrates were once the only major animal group not found fossilised in the Cambrian system of rocks.
 -  Even more remarkable than the evidence of prehistoric man was the discovery of thousands of fossilised animal bones.
 -  The lower images show the fossilized bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
 -  Amber is the fossilised resin of ancient pine trees, submerged under the sea in thin veins.
 -  Within some of the eggs, we found fossilized embryos, the first embryos of a sauropod ever uncovered.
 -  Mammoth skulls are made of light and thin bone and usually disintegrate before they can be fossilised.
 -  For most people, the discovery of fossilised wood in a quarry would not be newsworthy.
 -  Amber is a translucent, yellowish mineral made of fossilized resin.
 -  The reef system is made up of fossilised dunes.
 -  For example, the internal organs are especially well preserved in the fossilized Ottoia worms.
 -  Most of those that were fossilised go unrecognised by the untrained eye.
 -  In contrast, fossilized bone is believed to be completely mineralized, meaning no organics are present.
 -  There is the added question of how the dinosaurs are to be fossilised in a desert.
 -  The teenagers take the frozen caveman to paleontologists who study the intact, fossilized remains.
 -  The 130-million-year-old spider silk was found in fossilized amber from Lebanon.
 -  One could see fossilized bones in a coral reef formation.
 -  One solution is to examine larval shells directly from fossilized larval broods.
 -  When organisms become fossilized, the original material of their body is usually completely replaced.
 
 - 1.1 Archaic and incapable of change.
 a faltering economy and a fossilized political system  Example sentencesExamples -  It's not because the local cable plant is fossilized or the company is impoverished.
 -  The ruling party itself was unable to offer anything but fossilized mantras.
 -  The community of faithful, formerly a community of interests, becomes a fossilized thing.
 -  The temptation is to forsake fossilized print for the new opportunities of the dotcom world.
 -  Indigenous environmental knowledge should be a response to prevailing conditions in both town and country, not a set of fossilized ideas.
 -  To retreat into a fossilized Irish past that no longer fits Irish reality is self-destructive.
 -  Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
 -  Not all cases of fossilized division will erupt in civil war, but all will generate significant economic and psychological costs.
 -  It's like the fossilized idea of American manhood.
 
  Synonyms archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time  
    Definition of fossilized in US English: fossilized(British fossilised) adjectiveˈfäsəˌlīzdˈfɑsəˌlaɪzd 1Preserved to become a fossil.  Example sentencesExamples -  In contrast, fossilized bone is believed to be completely mineralized, meaning no organics are present.
 -  For example, the internal organs are especially well preserved in the fossilized Ottoia worms.
 -  The varicolored bands running across the hills are fossilized soils.
 -  The teenagers take the frozen caveman to paleontologists who study the intact, fossilized remains.
 -  Amber is the fossilised resin of ancient pine trees, submerged under the sea in thin veins.
 -  Most of those that were fossilised go unrecognised by the untrained eye.
 -  For most people, the discovery of fossilised wood in a quarry would not be newsworthy.
 -  Even more remarkable than the evidence of prehistoric man was the discovery of thousands of fossilised animal bones.
 -  Within some of the eggs, we found fossilized embryos, the first embryos of a sauropod ever uncovered.
 -  Their hypothesis can be tested by the discovery of fossilized stomach contents for Pakicetus.
 -  The lower images show the fossilized bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
 -  One could see fossilized bones in a coral reef formation.
 -  There is the added question of how the dinosaurs are to be fossilised in a desert.
 -  Mammoth skulls are made of light and thin bone and usually disintegrate before they can be fossilised.
 -  The 130-million-year-old spider silk was found in fossilized amber from Lebanon.
 -  Vertebrates were once the only major animal group not found fossilised in the Cambrian system of rocks.
 -  The reef system is made up of fossilised dunes.
 -  Amber is a translucent, yellowish mineral made of fossilized resin.
 -  One solution is to examine larval shells directly from fossilized larval broods.
 -  When organisms become fossilized, the original material of their body is usually completely replaced.
 
 - 1.1 Archaic and incapable of change.
 a faltering economy and a fossilized political system  Example sentencesExamples -  The community of faithful, formerly a community of interests, becomes a fossilized thing.
 -  Indigenous environmental knowledge should be a response to prevailing conditions in both town and country, not a set of fossilized ideas.
 -  The temptation is to forsake fossilized print for the new opportunities of the dotcom world.
 -  It's not because the local cable plant is fossilized or the company is impoverished.
 -  Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
 -  Not all cases of fossilized division will erupt in civil war, but all will generate significant economic and psychological costs.
 -  The ruling party itself was unable to offer anything but fossilized mantras.
 -  It's like the fossilized idea of American manhood.
 -  To retreat into a fossilized Irish past that no longer fits Irish reality is self-destructive.
 
  Synonyms archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time  
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