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fossil

Definition

  • noun: something (such as a leaf, skeleton, or footprint) that is from a plant or animal which lived in ancient times and that you can see in some rocks
  • noun: a remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust
  • adjective: preserved from a past geologic age
  • sometimes used before another noun
  • synonyms: remains, fogy, fossil flax

Examples

  • He says the school's directors are a bunch of old 'fossils'. [='fogies']

  • oil and other 'fossil fuels'

  • sources of 'fossil fuel'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Feel bad for yourself, man. One day the Als are gonna look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons in the plains of Africa. An upright ape, living in dust, with crude language and tools. (..)
    2014 Ex Machina