English words for 'British standard spelling of fossilization.'
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noun
- (linguistics) A fossil word.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An extremely old or outdated person.
- The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
- (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
- (figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
- someone whose style is out of fashion
- 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
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- Used to form nouns denoting fossil organisms.
- (rare) Used to form nouns for kinds, mostly from bases of Ancient Greek origin.
- Used to form nouns denoting descendants of a specified historical person, especially a biblical figure.
- (chiefly US, India) Used to form demonyms.
- Used to form nouns denoting the product of a specified process or a commercially manufactured product.
- (biology) Used to form nouns denoting segments or components of the body or an organ of the body.
- (chemistry) Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.
- Used to form nouns denoting rocks or minerals.
- Forms adjectives.
- (sometimes derogatory) Used to form nouns denoting followers or adherents of a specified person, idea, doctrine, movement, etc.
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- Relating to the Hellenic people of that name.
- (architecture) Alternative form of Ionic.
- (astronomy) Relating to the asteroid (52) Io.
- (astronomy, planetology) Relating to Io, one of the moons of the planet Jupiter.
- (music) Designating the Ionian mode or scale; the name of the major key in modal theory.
- Only used in Ionian Islands.
- Pertaining to Ionia, the ancient (ca 1100 BC) region including western Asia Minor and the adjacent Aegean Islands occupied by the Ionian people.
- of or pertaining to the ancient Ionians who lived in Attica and related territories, to their Ionic dialect of Greek, or to their culture
noun
- A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.
- (science fiction) An inhabitant of Io, a moon of Jupiter.
- the ancient Greek inhabitants of Attica and related regions in Ionia
- a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks, spoken in the central west coast of Asia Minor, the islands of Chios and Samos, islands across the central Aegean, and on the large island of Euboea north of Athens
noun
- (UK, dialectal) A nodule of ironstone containing fossil remains.
- (US) Ellipsis of cathead biscuit (“a large fluffy biscuit, typically served with gravy”).
- A heavy piece of timber projecting somewhat horizontally from each side of the bow of a ship on which an anchor is raised or lowered, and secured when not used, from its stock end.
- (technology, chiefly mining) A (small) capstan (“vertical cylindrical machine that revolves on a spindle, used to apply force to cables, ropes, etc.”) or windlass (“type of winch”) forming part of hoisting machinery.
- A decorative element at the end of such a timber that often depicts a cat's head.
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- (linguistics) A fossil word.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An extremely old or outdated person.
- The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
- (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
- (figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
- someone whose style is out of fashion
- 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
adj
noun
noun
- (UK, dialectal) A nodule of ironstone containing fossil remains.
- (US) Ellipsis of cathead biscuit (“a large fluffy biscuit, typically served with gravy”).
- A heavy piece of timber projecting somewhat horizontally from each side of the bow of a ship on which an anchor is raised or lowered, and secured when not used, from its stock end.
- (technology, chiefly mining) A (small) capstan (“vertical cylindrical machine that revolves on a spindle, used to apply force to cables, ropes, etc.”) or windlass (“type of winch”) forming part of hoisting machinery.
- A decorative element at the end of such a timber that often depicts a cat's head.