Fossil is valid Scrabble Word

Is fossil a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for FOSSIL in dictionary:

NOUN:

the preserved remains of a plant or animal
the remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form
a person or thing that is outdated or resistant to change
a word or phrase that has become obsolete except in set phrases or forms, e.g. hue in hue and cry.
hardened remains of an animal or plant preserved in rock
A substance dug from the earth.
The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
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

ADJECTIVE:

Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
characteristic of a fossil
of, like, or being a fossil

Words related to FOSSIL

baculite12 fossils10

Words that contain FOSSIL

fossils10 fossilise12 fossilize21 nonfossil12 subfossil14 fossilised14 fossilises13 fossilized23 fossilizes22 subfossils15 fossilising15 fossilizing24 ichnofossil19 macrofossil18 microfossil18 fossilisable17 fossilizable26 ichnofossils20 macrofossils19 microfossils19 unfossilised16 unfossilized25 fossiliferous19 fossilisation16 fossilization25 fossilisations17 fossilizations26 unfossiliferous21

How to use FOSSIL in a sentence

Almost the only fossil fern would have been that tall and beautiful Lastraea Thelypteris, once so abundant, now all but destroyed by drainage and the plough.
And I never want to see another putrid fossil in my life.
Science searches out their extinct species and fossil remains, and tells their age by Geology.
He was continually poring over fossil remains, and digging in the garden for something curious.
Pottery seems to have been known to the Africans from the remotest times, for fragments are found everywhere, even among the oldest fossil bones in the country.
And in foreign seas there are several star-fish still who grow on stalks all their lives, as this fossil one did.
It is very interesting, therefore, to find that this living fossil link between fish and reptiles should have survived only in the fossil continent, Australia.
Some savans had adopted it before the discovery of those fossil animals.
But greatest of all the wonders at the Head are the Fossil Cliffs.
Secondly, some fossil groups are astonishingly complete, so that the ancient history of a form like the horse can be written with something approaching fullness.

The fossil deer of North America, as well as many other even-toed members of the group of mammalia possessing hoofs, provide the same kind of conclusive evidence.
Little weight need be attached to the lack of fossil remains to fill up this gap, since the discovery of these depends upon chance.
In his quest for more fossil bones he was indefatigable.
Neither Bates, Wallace, nor Agassiz found any marine fossil on the banks of the great river.
Then, if they are to be mounted for a fossil skeleton, comes the work of restoring the missing parts.
Only a fossil hunter or a desert traveler can fully appreciate the luxury of abundant wood and running water.
I have found in those deposits alone one hundred and ten kinds of fossil fishes.
Of the animal, vegetable, or fossil productions of the bay, he could not speak, the shortness of his stay not permitting any examination.
This simply means that the Christian is alive and not a fossil.
On the theory of descent, the full meaning of the fact of fossil remains from closely consecutive formations, though ranked as distinct species, being closely related, is obvious.
Only organic beings of certain classes can be preserved in a fossil condition, at least in any great number.
But the fossil bodies which form the present subject of inquiry, belonged to former land, and are found only in the sea-born strata of our present earth.
But this is the description of our purest fossil coals, which burn in giving the greatest quantity of heat, and leave the smallest quantity of ashes.
Having placed some living ferns in a mass of clay and dried them, he exposed them to a red heat, and obtained thereby striking resemblances to fossil plants.

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