fossilized

adjective

fos·sil·ized ˈfä-sə-ˌlīzd

Synonyms of fossilized next

: having been changed into a fossil : subjected to fossilization

fossilized wood

And in 1997 he found several thousand fossilized eggs from a giant sauropod, or plant-eating dinosaur, just 120 miles north. The find included the first-known fossilized dinosaur embryos, as bits of fossilized dino-skin.—

Eric Niiler

: old and unchanging or outmoded

fossilized notions

As the mountains get higher, the houses become tin-roof shacks, with yards full of fossilized appliances and ancient cars.—

Elizabeth Gilbert

: made firm, fixed, or rigid by the passage of time

I love the living language more than the fossilized variety with its hardened meanings and set-in-stone lexicon.—

Paul McFedries

I know when I took photos in the past I was looking either for particularly artistic shots or ones that might become fossilized memories adorning a mantel.—

Robert W. Lucky

Examples of fossilized in a Sentence

fossilized notions about the proper place of women in society

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Sinosauropteryx fulfilled what paleontologists had been looking for—fossilized feathers along the neck, back and tail of the dinosaur left no doubt that birds had evolved from feathery dinosaur ancestors. —

Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024 The Lloyds Bank coprolite is possibly the largest example of fossilized human feces to date, measuring 20 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide, or 8 inches by 2 inches. —

Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024 Further evidence that Au. afarensis overlapped with other hominins came in 2015, when Haile-Selassie and his colleagues announced their discovery of fossilized upper and lower jaws from a species new to science, Australopithecus deyiremeda. —

Donald C. Johanson, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024 Trapped in sinkholes or lost within labyrinthine passages, these animals died, and their remains became fossilized and preserved by rising water levels. —

Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fossilized