1. The process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone
   - fossilisation [Brit] 
2. Becoming inflexible or out of date
   - fossilisation [Brit]

Derived forms: fossilizations

See also: fossilize

Type of: action, activity, natural action, natural process, passage, transition

Encyclopedia: Fossilization

• orphrey
• orpiment
• orpin
• orpine
• Orpington
• Orr
• orrery
• orris
• orrisroot
• Orson Welles
• ort
• Ortalis
• ortanique
• Ortega
• Ortega y Gasset
• orthicon
• Orthilia
• ortho-
• orthoboric acid
• orthocenter
• orthocentre
• orthochorea
• orthochromatic
• orthochromatic film
• orthoclase