fossilized
/ˈfɒs(ə)lʌɪzd
/(also fossilised)
adjective
1Preserved to become a fossil: a fossilized bone fossilized human remains...
- Even more remarkable than the evidence of prehistoric man was the discovery of thousands of fossilised animal bones.
- The reef system is made up of fossilised dunes.
- The 130-million-year-old spider silk was found in fossilized amber from Lebanon.
1.1Archaic and incapable of change: a faltering economy and a fossilized political system...
- The community of faithful, formerly a community of interests, becomes a fossilized thing.
- The temptation is to forsake fossilized print for the new opportunities of the dotcom world.
- Indigenous environmental knowledge should be a response to prevailing conditions in both town and country, not a set of fossilized ideas.
- linear programming
- linear search
- line astern
- lineation
- linebacker
- line break
- line breeding
- line-caught
- line cut
- line dance
- line-dance
- line dancer
- line dancing
- line defect
- line drawing
- line drive
- line-engraved
- line engraver
- line engraving
- linefeed
- linefish
- line fishing
- line-for-line
- line-in
- line integral