Fossilized can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| fossilized - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system" | ||
Verb |
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| fossilize - convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone" | ||
| fossilize - become mentally inflexible |
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| 1. | adj. | Obsolete fossilized ways. | |
| 2. | adj. | Possibly the fossilized tracks belong to animals of the Jurassic period. | |
| 3. | adj. | A fossilized shell is what I'm holding in my hands. | |
| 4. | adj. | What I'm holding in my hands is a fossilized shell. | |
| 5. | adj. | “One of the fun things about some of the fossils is, they tell stories,” Bowen said, pointing to a fossilized stingray hanging on the shop wall. | |
| 6. | adj. | The town of Kemmerer calls itself “Wyoming’s Aquarium in Stone.” Quarries just outside town yield schools of fossilized fish with just a few taps of a chisel. | |
| 7. | adj. | A new study based on fossilized footprints suggests a prehistoric relative of modern crocodiles walked on two hind legs. | |
| 8. | adj. | The fossilized footprints had originally been thought to belong to a pterosaur — a flying dinosaur — that had been walking on two legs. | |
| 9. | verb | Amber is fossilized resin. | |
| 10. | verb | Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind. | |
| 11. | verb | Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind. |
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| adj. | |
| Obsolete fossilized ways. |
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| Possibly the fossilized tracks belong to animals of the Jurassic period. | |
| A fossilized shell is what I'm holding in my hands. | |
| What I'm holding in my hands is a fossilized shell. | |
| “One of the fun things about some of the fossils is, they tell stories,” Bowen said, pointing to a fossilized stingray hanging on the shop wall. | |
| The town of Kemmerer calls itself “Wyoming’s Aquarium in Stone.” Quarries just outside town yield schools of fossilized fish with just a few taps of a chisel. | |
| A new study based on fossilized footprints suggests a prehistoric relative of modern crocodiles walked on two hind legs. | |
| The fossilized footprints had originally been thought to belong to a pterosaur — a flying dinosaur — that had been walking on two legs. | |
| verb | |
| Amber is fossilized resin. | |
| Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind. | |
| Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind. | |