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fossil::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dodo, fogey, fogy |
| Type of | old person, oldster, senior citizen, golden ager |
fossil::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | remains |
| Has types | microfossil, ammonite, wormcast, ammonoid, belemnite, fucoid, guide fossil, index fossil |
| Derivation | fossilist, fossilize |
Examples of fossil
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Some greens deny it, but clean energy still costs vastly more than fossil fuels.
From the online.wsj.com
However, oil accounts for only a small fraction of fossil-fuel power production.
From the kentucky.com
A fossil primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt.
From the sciencedaily.com
Compared with fossil fuels, biomass can provide a carbon-neutral form of energy.
From the newscientist.com
Whether the planet is warming is irrelevant to the need to get off fossil fuels.
From the independent.co.uk
Meteorites form a fossil record of the conditions that existed when they formed.
From the newscientist.com
Of the 47 TW of energy that we use, about 17 TW comes from burning fossil fuels.
From the newscientist.com
To the idea of running out of fossil fuel, new finds are occurring all the time.
From the newscientist.com
Could biofuels do more damage to the climate than the fossil fuels they replace?
From the newscientist.com
- Characteristic of a fossil
- Dodo: someone whose style is out of fashion
- The remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
- Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having been dug up") are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. ...
- FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system. FOSSIL is an acronym for Fido Opus SEAdog Standard Interface Layer. ...
- Fossil is the default file system in Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It serves the network protocol 9P and runs as a user space daemon, like most Plan 9 file servers. Fossil is different from most other file systems due to its snapshot/archival feature. ...
- Fossil is a science fiction book written by Hal Clement and first printed in November, 1993. Copyright was reserved to him under his real name, Harry C. Stubbs and the company he associated himself with, Tomorrow, Inc..
- Fossil is a distributed version control system, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development. It was created by D. Richard Hipp.
- The mineralized remains of an animal or plant; Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals; A fossilized term; Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated
