"Fossil" is a word in ENGLISH
Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
A substance dug from the earth.
The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified
rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later
ones belong to species still living.
Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether
petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated;
one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the
present.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.
Read the complete definitionThe science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such …
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