FOSSIL
Dictionary entry overview: What does fossil mean?
• FOSSIL (noun)
The noun FOSSIL has 2 senses:
1. someone whose style is out of fashion
2. 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
Familiarity information: FOSSIL used as a noun is rare.
• FOSSIL (adjective)
The adjective FOSSIL has 1 sense:
1. characteristic of a fossil
Familiarity information: FOSSIL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FOSSIL (noun)
Meaning:
Someone whose style is out of fashion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
dodo; fogey; fogy; fossil
Hypernyms ("fossil" is a kind of...):
golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("fossil" is a kind of...):
remains (any object that is left unused or still extant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fossil"):
fucoid (a fossilized cast or impression of algae of the order Fucales)
belemnite (a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae)
ammonite; ammonoid (one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks)
guide fossil; index fossil (a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found)
microfossil (a fossil that must be studied microscopically)
wormcast (fossil trail of a worm)
• FOSSIL (adjective)
Meaning:
Characteristic of a fossil
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
fossil (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)
