OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22117

fossil

/ˈfɒsl̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fósil
The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
With the permission of the Keeper of the fossil collection, therefore, the specimen was subjected to a further careful removal of the matrix in the requisite directions.
Within the Hepaticae two types of fossils can be distinguished: those with sufficient characters to assign them to an order and those with more obscure characters.
Word forms