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fossilize /ˈfɒs(ə)lʌɪz / /ˈfɒsɪlʌɪz/(also fossilise) verb [with object]1Preserve (an animal or plant) so that it becomes a fossil: the hard parts of the body are readily fossilized...- No in situ fossilized trees were found preserved within channel sandstone bodies.
- Many fossilized insects and animal fossils are identical to those living today.
- Small fish bones, delicate leaves, even animal skin have been fossilized and beautifully preserved.
Synonyms petrified, ossified rare lapidified archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time informal prehistoric 1.1 [no object] Become a fossil: flowers do not readily fossilize...- They fossilize readily and in recognizable form because the interlocking desmas retain the original form of the sponge.
- However, the paucity of modern cycad trunks to cycadeoid trunks in the fossil record suggests that the modern cycad trunks did not fossilize as readily as the extinct variety.
- Attachment of quartz and kaolinite to the surface of lobster eggs demonstrates experimentally for the first time that soft tissues could fossilize in pre-existing minerals.
1.2Become or cause to become fixed and incapable of change or development: [with object]: we want to see a working countryside—we don’t want to see it fossilized...- This atmosphere had the weird property of deadening and fossilising every thing that slid under its sway.
- Canons of literature may fossilize their subject and reduce its study to dry memorization for its own sake.
- The system is bureaucratic, distorts land use and fossilises the countryside and businesses.
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