| 单词 | fossil |
| 释义 | fossil —fossillike, adj. /fos"euhl/, n. 1. any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc. 2. a markedly outdated or old-fashioned person or thing. 3. a linguistic form that is archaic except in certain restricted contexts, as nonce in for the nonce, or that follows a rule or pattern that is no longer productive, as the sentence So be it. adj. 4. of the nature of a fossil: fossil insects. 5. belonging to a past epoch or discarded system; antiquated: a fossil approach to economics. [1555-65; < L fossilis dug up (Cf. fodere to dig); r. earlier fossile < F] |
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