How to Spell fossil
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"
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)"