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fossilized

  • adjective

In a state of fossilization; preserved in rock.

Other meanings

  1. Having become a fossil; no longer productive.

  2. Old-fashioned, outmoded, or rigidly fixed in a way that is resistant to change.

Related words

  • fossilized lightning
  • nonfossilized
  • prefossilized
  • semifossilized
  • subfossilized
  • unfossilized

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This definition is adapted from “fossilized” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.