to fossilize
9
6.0
- verb
- /ˈfɑːsɪlaɪz/
- Specialized
:
fósilizar
- Why would you expect there to be lots of fossilized bones from a near-instantaneous extinction event?
- fossilized bones
- fossilized remains
- genes are fossilized
We just got to Fossil Creek and we've already found two fossilized turtle shells.
- We just got to Fossil Creek and we've already found two fossilized turtle shells.
- Much of our knowledge of what I'm talking about is based on fossilisation, and stone fossilises much longer than wood.
- So as exciting as it would be to find fossilized, because it's not, those compounds don't last that long.
Examples
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Popular at the Tucson show are fossilized birds from a site discovered in China only four years ago.
Academic text (1998) -
In 1922, Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews discovered, for the first time in history, a nest of fossilized dinosaur eggs.
Academic text (2004) -
As evidence of it, they left their fossilized bones, their tools and weapons, and their pictures.
Academic text (1995) -
But yes, or it could be Mars might have fossilized life.
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I know it must seem silly, collecting all this stuff, but just look at this fossilized sea stone.
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Finally, in people, some 50 percent of the genes were fossilized.
Academic text (2006) -
Recent geology research from the University of Cincinnati, presents new evidence for bacteria found fossilized in two separate locations.
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NASA scientists are excited over recent findings by the Mars Rover of fossilized organic compounds on the surface that indicate at some time in the past there may have been life on the Red Planet.
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Within some of the eggs, we found fossilized embryos, the first embryos of a sauropod ever uncovered.
Academic text (2002) -
The tree resin can be preserved for millions of years when it is fossilized, forming amber.
Synonyms
1
7.4
To change something into stone over a long time
To become hard as minerals collect inside things like bones
To turn something into a hard, glass-like rock that keeps its shape
To turn into solid rock over time
Antonyms
- Specialized
37
4.4
To change dead plants and animals into simpler parts with help from bacteria or fungi
How Preserved
- Specialized
9
6.0
- Specialized
496
3.4
570
1.0
19
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fossilize comes from fossil, a word from an old term meaning 'dug up', and the ending -ize, which means 'make'. So to fossilize is to slowly 'turn into' a fossil over a very long time.