Definition of fossilize in English:

fossilize

(British fossilise)

verb ˈfɒsɪlʌɪzˈfɒs(ə)lʌɪzˈfɑsəˌlaɪz

[with object]

1Preserve (an animal or plant) so that it becomes a fossil.
使（动物，植物）成为化石
the hard parts of the body are readily fossilized
身体坚硬部分容易成为化石。
Example sentencesExamples
- Spiders are rarely fossilized since they have no hard skeleton and usually thrive away from water, where sediments ideal for fossils accumulate.
- As such, they have been found fossilized in Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits, and have been used to reconstruct paleoclimates.
- The merging occurs near the apertural margin, indicating the specimen was fossilized shortly after ontogenetic merging.
- Personally, I'm happy to spend my time doing the delicate work of digging out dinosaur bones, and not having to be responsible for a several-ton fossilized tree.
- Our data set includes only fossilized specimens and all of them are from an extinct genus of class Stenolaemata, the dominant Paleozoic class of bryozoans.
- Today more than a dozen transitional whale fossils have been unearthed - an excellent series for such rarely fossilized animals.
- No in situ fossilized trees were found preserved within channel sandstone bodies.
- The coastline resembles the gaping, dislocated jaws of some fossilised dinosaur that once roamed here, but time has rendered it harmless and tides have scattered its teeth to form countless islands.
- In the vicinity of many fossilized animals, there is an absence of these algae, indicative of a heterogeneous environment.
- They are so named because they originate from the decayed and fossilized remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
- In addition to their possible connection with Brown's discovery, these T. rex fossils also were found to contain coprolites, fossilized remains of the dinosaur's last meal.
- The Joggins Formation, on the coast of Nova Scotia, contains fossilized trees five to six metres in height preserved upright in layers of sandstone and shale, as well as numerous coal seams.
- Small fish bones, delicate leaves, even animal skin have been fossilized and beautifully preserved.
- Phytosaurs are particularly useful for biozonation because these large river and swamp-dwelling animals were frequently fossilized.
- But one colour alone can look magical: chokers made from cool blue lace agate or fossilised Tibetan coral are dazzling.
- Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes.
- Here bats, fossilised coral, stalagmites and stalactites can all be found.
- The combination of fossils and gouged marks created a metaphoric interplay between fossilized creatures and shelled victims.
- Calculating when this Atlantic lineage originated is difficult, since the results now call into question the identity of many fossilized corals.
- Many fossilized insects and animal fossils are identical to those living today.
Synonyms
petrified, ossified
rare lapidified
archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time
informal prehistoric
1. 1.1no object Become a fossil.
  变成化石
  flowers do not readily fossilize
  花朵不容易变成化石。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's made of wood and left to fossilize: to gather minerals and geologically imprint itself on the side of a mountain.
  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.
  Clearly, such behaviors do not fossilize directly and have to be inferred from anatomy.
  What is stupid of Fred is to ask for detailed fossil data from organisms that don't fossilize well.
  Bird bones are thin, small and hollow and do not fossilize well; but we are gradually accumulating a good many enantiornithine - and perhaps even archaeornithine - fossils.
  DNA data is directly comparable across all extant organisms, including those that do not fossilize well such as soft bodied taxa, and contains information for the entire history of every lineage.
  However, most modern dinocysts reach sediments before germination, and some of these can fossilize without excystment structure formation.
  In the Recent, other candidates can be found, but only in taxa that typically fossilize poorly, so first occurrences cannot be dated with confidence.
  Only a few families and genera are known; this appears to have been a small group, or alternatively to have frequented areas where they would not have easily fossilized.
  Morphological species are important in palaeontology, for interbreeding ability does not fossilize.
  Fossilized bones say nothing about external layers, and skin and clothes don't fossilize well.
  It's not conclusive evidence for the evolution of flight - and since behavior doesn't fossilize, one can never be certain.
  This ham, flour, and hat have not even taken 110 years to fossilize.
  They fossilize readily and in recognizable form because the interlocking desmas retain the original form of the sponge.
  The fact is that organisms fossilize only under certain specific conditions.
  In all but the most extraordinary conditions, pneumatized bones are the only traces of the respiratory system that fossilize.
  Such microorganisms could trap sediments and precipitate limestone, and though they rarely fossilized, they did leave characteristic freestanding mounds and columns, built on the seafloor.
  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.
  Thus, for example, he argues that such elements were present in osteostraci, but failed to fossilize.
  When the bones were brought to the Montana State University's lab, it was noticed that ‘some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.’
2. 1.2 Become 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
  Example sentencesExamples
  The system is bureaucratic, distorts land use and fossilises the countryside and businesses.
  On the other hand, modernisers claim that the game will fossilise if something is not done to stir interest.
  Our evolutionary heritage is not completely fossilized; it can in some respects alter itself in response to the conditions in which we grow up.
  Why should modern reverence of ancient deities force them to fossilize when they were clearly organic and changeable in the past?
  It is argued that due to the practical constraints imposed on L2 learning, a majority of L2 words fossilize at the second stage.
  The tragedy of Gemini is that he got fossilised in one type of portrayal.
  I say the problem lies with the late introduction of English language which is delayed until the child's brain fossilises.
  He was one of the most extreme of the extremists, once described by The Nation as ‘an able young man whose ideas have tragically fossilized.’
  For Zen, however, this need for permanence fossilizes what is both beautiful and sacred.
  Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested.
  She calls him, ‘my first love,’ as if the feelings have fossilised.
  At this stage, many learners stop, their capacity fossilized.
  ‘I think people have to ask themselves what they are doing in jobs that cause them to freeze and fossilise when they could be doing something that really challenges them,’ he says.
  Canons of literature may fossilize their subject and reduce its study to dry memorization for its own sake.
  This atmosphere had the weird property of deadening and fossilising every thing that slid under its sway.
  The church that does not evangelise must surely fossilise!
  Synonyms
  archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time

Derivatives

fossilization

noun fɒsəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)nfɒsɪlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n

So it is simply false, given what we know about the process of fossilization, to declare that we should have a perfect record of every species and therefore should have a perfect sequence of fossils documenting every transition.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was not developed to ‘get around the data’, it was developed to apply what we knew about genetics to what we should then expect in terms of fossilization.
- The party Polaroid is not so much an evocation of a past event as it is an instant fossilization of the present.
- But then we weren't seriously hunting for fossils, a worthwhile pursuit if you are not already well advanced into fossilization yourself, as it were.
- That has led many to posit that the ‘cambrian explosion’ is more likely an artifact of the differential fossilization of animals with hard parts, particularly exo-skeletons, than of a real explosion.

Definition of fossilize in US English:

fossilize

(British fossilise)

verbˈfäsəˌlīzˈfɑsəˌlaɪz

[with object]usually be fossilized

1Preserve (an organism) so that it becomes a fossil.
使（动物，植物）成为化石
the hard parts of the body are readily fossilized
身体坚硬部分容易成为化石。
Example sentencesExamples
- The combination of fossils and gouged marks created a metaphoric interplay between fossilized creatures and shelled victims.
- In addition to their possible connection with Brown's discovery, these T. rex fossils also were found to contain coprolites, fossilized remains of the dinosaur's last meal.
- 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.
- Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes.
- Calculating when this Atlantic lineage originated is difficult, since the results now call into question the identity of many fossilized corals.
- As such, they have been found fossilized in Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits, and have been used to reconstruct paleoclimates.
- Spiders are rarely fossilized since they have no hard skeleton and usually thrive away from water, where sediments ideal for fossils accumulate.
- The merging occurs near the apertural margin, indicating the specimen was fossilized shortly after ontogenetic merging.
- The coastline resembles the gaping, dislocated jaws of some fossilised dinosaur that once roamed here, but time has rendered it harmless and tides have scattered its teeth to form countless islands.
- Phytosaurs are particularly useful for biozonation because these large river and swamp-dwelling animals were frequently fossilized.
- The Joggins Formation, on the coast of Nova Scotia, contains fossilized trees five to six metres in height preserved upright in layers of sandstone and shale, as well as numerous coal seams.
- Our data set includes only fossilized specimens and all of them are from an extinct genus of class Stenolaemata, the dominant Paleozoic class of bryozoans.
- But one colour alone can look magical: chokers made from cool blue lace agate or fossilised Tibetan coral are dazzling.
- Personally, I'm happy to spend my time doing the delicate work of digging out dinosaur bones, and not having to be responsible for a several-ton fossilized tree.
- Today more than a dozen transitional whale fossils have been unearthed - an excellent series for such rarely fossilized animals.
- In the vicinity of many fossilized animals, there is an absence of these algae, indicative of a heterogeneous environment.
- No in situ fossilized trees were found preserved within channel sandstone bodies.
- They are so named because they originate from the decayed and fossilized remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
- Here bats, fossilised coral, stalagmites and stalactites can all be found.
Synonyms
petrified, ossified
archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time
1. 1.1no object Become a fossil.
  变成化石
  flowers do not readily fossilize
  花朵不容易变成化石。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thus, for example, he argues that such elements were present in osteostraci, but failed to fossilize.
  In the Recent, other candidates can be found, but only in taxa that typically fossilize poorly, so first occurrences cannot be dated with confidence.
  Fossilized bones say nothing about external layers, and skin and clothes don't fossilize well.
  They fossilize readily and in recognizable form because the interlocking desmas retain the original form of the sponge.
  Clearly, such behaviors do not fossilize directly and have to be inferred from anatomy.
  When the bones were brought to the Montana State University's lab, it was noticed that ‘some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.’
  In all but the most extraordinary conditions, pneumatized bones are the only traces of the respiratory system that fossilize.
  It's made of wood and left to fossilize: to gather minerals and geologically imprint itself on the side of a mountain.
  However, most modern dinocysts reach sediments before germination, and some of these can fossilize without excystment structure formation.
  Bird bones are thin, small and hollow and do not fossilize well; but we are gradually accumulating a good many enantiornithine - and perhaps even archaeornithine - fossils.
  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.
  It's not conclusive evidence for the evolution of flight - and since behavior doesn't fossilize, one can never be certain.
  Such microorganisms could trap sediments and precipitate limestone, and though they rarely fossilized, they did leave characteristic freestanding mounds and columns, built on the seafloor.
  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.
  Morphological species are important in palaeontology, for interbreeding ability does not fossilize.
  This ham, flour, and hat have not even taken 110 years to fossilize.
  What is stupid of Fred is to ask for detailed fossil data from organisms that don't fossilize well.
  DNA data is directly comparable across all extant organisms, including those that do not fossilize well such as soft bodied taxa, and contains information for the entire history of every lineage.
  Only a few families and genera are known; this appears to have been a small group, or alternatively to have frequented areas where they would not have easily fossilized.
  The fact is that organisms fossilize only under certain specific conditions.
2. 1.2 Become or cause to become antiquated, fixed, or incapable of change or development.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I say the problem lies with the late introduction of English language which is delayed until the child's brain fossilises.
  The church that does not evangelise must surely fossilise!
  It is argued that due to the practical constraints imposed on L2 learning, a majority of L2 words fossilize at the second stage.
  Our evolutionary heritage is not completely fossilized; it can in some respects alter itself in response to the conditions in which we grow up.
  This atmosphere had the weird property of deadening and fossilising every thing that slid under its sway.
  Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested.
  Why should modern reverence of ancient deities force them to fossilize when they were clearly organic and changeable in the past?
  For Zen, however, this need for permanence fossilizes what is both beautiful and sacred.
  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.
  ‘I think people have to ask themselves what they are doing in jobs that cause them to freeze and fossilise when they could be doing something that really challenges them,’ he says.
  He was one of the most extreme of the extremists, once described by The Nation as ‘an able young man whose ideas have tragically fossilized.’
  On the other hand, modernisers claim that the game will fossilise if something is not done to stir interest.
  The tragedy of Gemini is that he got fossilised in one type of portrayal.
  At this stage, many learners stop, their capacity fossilized.
  She calls him, ‘my first love,’ as if the feelings have fossilised.
  Synonyms
  archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time

单词	fossilize
释义	Definition of fossilize in English: fossilize (British fossilise) verb ˈfɒsɪlʌɪzˈfɒs(ə)lʌɪzˈfɑsəˌlaɪz [with object] 1Preserve (an animal or plant) so that it becomes a fossil. 使（动物，植物）成为化石 the hard parts of the body are readily fossilized 身体坚硬部分容易成为化石。 Example sentencesExamples Spiders are rarely fossilized since they have no hard skeleton and usually thrive away from water, where sediments ideal for fossils accumulate. As such, they have been found fossilized in Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits, and have been used to reconstruct paleoclimates. The merging occurs near the apertural margin, indicating the specimen was fossilized shortly after ontogenetic merging. Personally, I'm happy to spend my time doing the delicate work of digging out dinosaur bones, and not having to be responsible for a several-ton fossilized tree. Our data set includes only fossilized specimens and all of them are from an extinct genus of class Stenolaemata, the dominant Paleozoic class of bryozoans. Today more than a dozen transitional whale fossils have been unearthed - an excellent series for such rarely fossilized animals. No in situ fossilized trees were found preserved within channel sandstone bodies. The coastline resembles the gaping, dislocated jaws of some fossilised dinosaur that once roamed here, but time has rendered it harmless and tides have scattered its teeth to form countless islands. In the vicinity of many fossilized animals, there is an absence of these algae, indicative of a heterogeneous environment. They are so named because they originate from the decayed and fossilized remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. In addition to their possible connection with Brown's discovery, these T. rex fossils also were found to contain coprolites, fossilized remains of the dinosaur's last meal. The Joggins Formation, on the coast of Nova Scotia, contains fossilized trees five to six metres in height preserved upright in layers of sandstone and shale, as well as numerous coal seams. Small fish bones, delicate leaves, even animal skin have been fossilized and beautifully preserved. Phytosaurs are particularly useful for biozonation because these large river and swamp-dwelling animals were frequently fossilized. But one colour alone can look magical: chokers made from cool blue lace agate or fossilised Tibetan coral are dazzling. Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes. Here bats, fossilised coral, stalagmites and stalactites can all be found. The combination of fossils and gouged marks created a metaphoric interplay between fossilized creatures and shelled victims. Calculating when this Atlantic lineage originated is difficult, since the results now call into question the identity of many fossilized corals. Many fossilized insects and animal fossils are identical to those living today. Synonyms petrified, ossified rare lapidified archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time informal prehistoric 1.1no object Become a fossil. 变成化石 flowers do not readily fossilize 花朵不容易变成化石。 Example sentencesExamples It's made of wood and left to fossilize: to gather minerals and geologically imprint itself on the side of a mountain. 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. Clearly, such behaviors do not fossilize directly and have to be inferred from anatomy. What is stupid of Fred is to ask for detailed fossil data from organisms that don't fossilize well. Bird bones are thin, small and hollow and do not fossilize well; but we are gradually accumulating a good many enantiornithine - and perhaps even archaeornithine - fossils. DNA data is directly comparable across all extant organisms, including those that do not fossilize well such as soft bodied taxa, and contains information for the entire history of every lineage. However, most modern dinocysts reach sediments before germination, and some of these can fossilize without excystment structure formation. In the Recent, other candidates can be found, but only in taxa that typically fossilize poorly, so first occurrences cannot be dated with confidence. Only a few families and genera are known; this appears to have been a small group, or alternatively to have frequented areas where they would not have easily fossilized. Morphological species are important in palaeontology, for interbreeding ability does not fossilize. Fossilized bones say nothing about external layers, and skin and clothes don't fossilize well. It's not conclusive evidence for the evolution of flight - and since behavior doesn't fossilize, one can never be certain. This ham, flour, and hat have not even taken 110 years to fossilize. They fossilize readily and in recognizable form because the interlocking desmas retain the original form of the sponge. The fact is that organisms fossilize only under certain specific conditions. In all but the most extraordinary conditions, pneumatized bones are the only traces of the respiratory system that fossilize. Such microorganisms could trap sediments and precipitate limestone, and though they rarely fossilized, they did leave characteristic freestanding mounds and columns, built on the seafloor. 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. Thus, for example, he argues that such elements were present in osteostraci, but failed to fossilize. When the bones were brought to the Montana State University's lab, it was noticed that ‘some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.’ 1.2 Become 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 Example sentencesExamples The system is bureaucratic, distorts land use and fossilises the countryside and businesses. On the other hand, modernisers claim that the game will fossilise if something is not done to stir interest. Our evolutionary heritage is not completely fossilized; it can in some respects alter itself in response to the conditions in which we grow up. Why should modern reverence of ancient deities force them to fossilize when they were clearly organic and changeable in the past? It is argued that due to the practical constraints imposed on L2 learning, a majority of L2 words fossilize at the second stage. The tragedy of Gemini is that he got fossilised in one type of portrayal. I say the problem lies with the late introduction of English language which is delayed until the child's brain fossilises. He was one of the most extreme of the extremists, once described by The Nation as ‘an able young man whose ideas have tragically fossilized.’ For Zen, however, this need for permanence fossilizes what is both beautiful and sacred. Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested. She calls him, ‘my first love,’ as if the feelings have fossilised. At this stage, many learners stop, their capacity fossilized. ‘I think people have to ask themselves what they are doing in jobs that cause them to freeze and fossilise when they could be doing something that really challenges them,’ he says. Canons of literature may fossilize their subject and reduce its study to dry memorization for its own sake. This atmosphere had the weird property of deadening and fossilising every thing that slid under its sway. The church that does not evangelise must surely fossilise! Synonyms archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time Derivatives fossilization noun fɒsəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)nfɒsɪlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n So it is simply false, given what we know about the process of fossilization, to declare that we should have a perfect record of every species and therefore should have a perfect sequence of fossils documenting every transition. Example sentencesExamples It was not developed to ‘get around the data’, it was developed to apply what we knew about genetics to what we should then expect in terms of fossilization. The party Polaroid is not so much an evocation of a past event as it is an instant fossilization of the present. But then we weren't seriously hunting for fossils, a worthwhile pursuit if you are not already well advanced into fossilization yourself, as it were. That has led many to posit that the ‘cambrian explosion’ is more likely an artifact of the differential fossilization of animals with hard parts, particularly exo-skeletons, than of a real explosion. Definition of fossilize in US English: fossilize (British fossilise) verbˈfäsəˌlīzˈfɑsəˌlaɪz [with object]usually be fossilized 1Preserve (an organism) so that it becomes a fossil. 使（动物，植物）成为化石 the hard parts of the body are readily fossilized 身体坚硬部分容易成为化石。 Example sentencesExamples The combination of fossils and gouged marks created a metaphoric interplay between fossilized creatures and shelled victims. In addition to their possible connection with Brown's discovery, these T. rex fossils also were found to contain coprolites, fossilized remains of the dinosaur's last meal. 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. Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes. Calculating when this Atlantic lineage originated is difficult, since the results now call into question the identity of many fossilized corals. As such, they have been found fossilized in Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits, and have been used to reconstruct paleoclimates. Spiders are rarely fossilized since they have no hard skeleton and usually thrive away from water, where sediments ideal for fossils accumulate. The merging occurs near the apertural margin, indicating the specimen was fossilized shortly after ontogenetic merging. The coastline resembles the gaping, dislocated jaws of some fossilised dinosaur that once roamed here, but time has rendered it harmless and tides have scattered its teeth to form countless islands. Phytosaurs are particularly useful for biozonation because these large river and swamp-dwelling animals were frequently fossilized. The Joggins Formation, on the coast of Nova Scotia, contains fossilized trees five to six metres in height preserved upright in layers of sandstone and shale, as well as numerous coal seams. Our data set includes only fossilized specimens and all of them are from an extinct genus of class Stenolaemata, the dominant Paleozoic class of bryozoans. But one colour alone can look magical: chokers made from cool blue lace agate or fossilised Tibetan coral are dazzling. Personally, I'm happy to spend my time doing the delicate work of digging out dinosaur bones, and not having to be responsible for a several-ton fossilized tree. Today more than a dozen transitional whale fossils have been unearthed - an excellent series for such rarely fossilized animals. In the vicinity of many fossilized animals, there is an absence of these algae, indicative of a heterogeneous environment. No in situ fossilized trees were found preserved within channel sandstone bodies. They are so named because they originate from the decayed and fossilized remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Here bats, fossilised coral, stalagmites and stalactites can all be found. Synonyms petrified, ossified archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time 1.1no object Become a fossil. 变成化石 flowers do not readily fossilize 花朵不容易变成化石。 Example sentencesExamples Thus, for example, he argues that such elements were present in osteostraci, but failed to fossilize. In the Recent, other candidates can be found, but only in taxa that typically fossilize poorly, so first occurrences cannot be dated with confidence. Fossilized bones say nothing about external layers, and skin and clothes don't fossilize well. They fossilize readily and in recognizable form because the interlocking desmas retain the original form of the sponge. Clearly, such behaviors do not fossilize directly and have to be inferred from anatomy. When the bones were brought to the Montana State University's lab, it was noticed that ‘some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.’ In all but the most extraordinary conditions, pneumatized bones are the only traces of the respiratory system that fossilize. It's made of wood and left to fossilize: to gather minerals and geologically imprint itself on the side of a mountain. However, most modern dinocysts reach sediments before germination, and some of these can fossilize without excystment structure formation. Bird bones are thin, small and hollow and do not fossilize well; but we are gradually accumulating a good many enantiornithine - and perhaps even archaeornithine - fossils. 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. It's not conclusive evidence for the evolution of flight - and since behavior doesn't fossilize, one can never be certain. Such microorganisms could trap sediments and precipitate limestone, and though they rarely fossilized, they did leave characteristic freestanding mounds and columns, built on the seafloor. 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. Morphological species are important in palaeontology, for interbreeding ability does not fossilize. This ham, flour, and hat have not even taken 110 years to fossilize. What is stupid of Fred is to ask for detailed fossil data from organisms that don't fossilize well. DNA data is directly comparable across all extant organisms, including those that do not fossilize well such as soft bodied taxa, and contains information for the entire history of every lineage. Only a few families and genera are known; this appears to have been a small group, or alternatively to have frequented areas where they would not have easily fossilized. The fact is that organisms fossilize only under certain specific conditions. 1.2 Become or cause to become antiquated, fixed, or incapable of change or development. Example sentencesExamples I say the problem lies with the late introduction of English language which is delayed until the child's brain fossilises. The church that does not evangelise must surely fossilise! It is argued that due to the practical constraints imposed on L2 learning, a majority of L2 words fossilize at the second stage. Our evolutionary heritage is not completely fossilized; it can in some respects alter itself in response to the conditions in which we grow up. This atmosphere had the weird property of deadening and fossilising every thing that slid under its sway. Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested. Why should modern reverence of ancient deities force them to fossilize when they were clearly organic and changeable in the past? For Zen, however, this need for permanence fossilizes what is both beautiful and sacred. 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. ‘I think people have to ask themselves what they are doing in jobs that cause them to freeze and fossilise when they could be doing something that really challenges them,’ he says. He was one of the most extreme of the extremists, once described by The Nation as ‘an able young man whose ideas have tragically fossilized.’ On the other hand, modernisers claim that the game will fossilise if something is not done to stir interest. The tragedy of Gemini is that he got fossilised in one type of portrayal. At this stage, many learners stop, their capacity fossilized. She calls him, ‘my first love,’ as if the feelings have fossilised. Synonyms archaic, antiquated, antediluvian, old-fashioned, quaint, outdated, outmoded, behind the times, anachronistic, stuck in time
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