fossil

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɒsl̩/    美 /ˈfɑsl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
    — 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.
  2. Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
    — He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
  3. A fossil word.
  4. Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated. figuratively
  5. An extremely old or outdated person. derogatory,figuratively
    — I do not want to convey any disrespectful notion or slight when I call those good and learned men fossils, but my experience is that people are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same paths too persistently.

词形变化

fossils plural

词汇关系

衍生词
body fossil cast fossil chemofossil fossilate fossil car fossil damascus fossildom fossiled fossil fool fossil fuel fossil gas fossilhood fossiliferous fossilification fossilify fossilisation fossilization fossilise fossilize fossilism fossilist fossility fossillike fossilogy fossil oil fossilology fossil record fossil resin fossil twister fossil water ichnofossil index fossil living fossil macrofossil magnetofossil megafossil mesofossil microfossil mold fossil nanofossil non-fossil nonfossil palynofossil pseudofossil semifossil subfossil technofossil trace fossil
相关词
coprolite Fossil

词源

From French fossile, from Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“to dig up”).
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