fossilize's Usage Examples:

It marks the relations which subsist between all members of the plant world, including those between existing groups and those which are known only from their fossilized remains preserved in the rocks.

Ethylene succinic acid occurs in amber, in various resins and lignites, in fossilized wood, in many members of the natural orders of Papaveraceae and Compositae, in unripe grapes, urine and blood.

There seems to be no doubt that fossilized remains of the dingo occur intermingled with those of the extinct Australian mammals, such as giant kangaroos, giant wombats and the still more gigantic Diprotodon.

The fossil history of snakes is very poorly known, since snake skeletons are very delicate and do not fossilize easily.

In the Lower Carboniferous of central Russia beds of coal occur consisting of the cuticles of a Bothrodendron, which are not fossilized, but retain the consistency and chemical composition of similar tissues in recent plants.

"Amber is fossilized resin and may be clear or opaque (osseous amber ), and deep reddish orange to creamy yellow.

Koirpos, dung, and X LOo, stone), the fossilized excrements of extinct animals.

In the fossilized ooze of the Wonderkop, a table mountain of the adjacent Wittebergen, are quantities of petrified fish.

We read books that would have us believe fossilized footprints of Homo sapiens walked the earth millions of years ago.

Like the woodlice they were capable of rolling themselves up into a ball, many specimens having been found fossilized in this state, with the pygidium pressed tightly against the head-shield.

In times of drought these animals undoubtedly resorted to the same water-courses for drink, and thus their fossilized remains are found associated.

By the time when Latin literature begins, the genuine Roman religion had already been overlaid by foreign cults and modes of thought, by the classical period it was - except in formal observance - practically buried and to a large extent fossilized.

Synonyms:

convert, petrify, fossilise, lapidify,

Antonyms:

undeveloped, stay, exit, get off, disembark,