fossil

fossil - adjective

  • Preserved from a past geologic age
  • Being or resembling a fossil
  • Of or relating to fossil fuel
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"fossil plants"

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Letter Values

F
9
O
15
S
20
S
20
I
9
L
15

Etymology

Earlier, "dug from the earth, preserved in the ground," borrowed from French & Latin; French fossile, borrowed from Latin fossilis "obtained by digging," from fodiō, fodere "to prod, jab, dig, remove by digging" (going back to Indo-European *bed-, *bod- "jab, dig," whence also Lithuanian bedù, bèsti "to stick, dig," Old Church Slavic bodǫ, bosti "to prick, stab," Hittite paddai "digs") + -tilis "produced by, characterized by (the action of the verb)"