Fossils is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FOSSILS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• FOSSIL, 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• a person or thing that is outdated or resistant to change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.

Words related to FOSSILS

fossil9

Words that contain FOSSILS

subfossils15 ichnofossils20 macrofossils19 microfossils19

How to use FOSSILS in a sentence

• During the summer of 1871, Professor Marsh, of Yale College, came out to McPherson, with a large party of students to have a hunt and to look for fossils.
• In the Museum at the University is an admirable collection of fossils, minerals, and machines in every branch of science.
• In one of the sitting-rooms is a set of drawers in which Kingsley kept a collection of fossils.
• I am only able to say, that the fossils were generally found in tertiary deposits, and were plentiful in quantity, but the variety was not great.
• At one camp, where we stopped for dinner, they had a most interesting collection of fossils.
• But in 1876 he visited America, and had the opportunity of consulting the marvellous series of fossils which Professor Marsh had collected from American Tertiary beds.
• Huxley pointed out that the fact of identical fossils being present was, on the whole, evidence against the beds having been formed at the same time.
• The record of fossils shews that the living population of the earth has been entirely different at different epochs.
• And the Club of Queer Trades reigns in a great edifice hidden like a fossil in a mighty cliff of fossils.
• After satisfying myself that the drawers contained nothing but the fossils and their inscriptions, I turned to the cabinet in the left-hand corner next.
• And Leonardo da Vinci had advanced in geology to the conception of the deposition of marine strata as the origin of fossils.
• These curious creatures, genuine living fossils, occupy in some respects an intermediate place between the mammals on the one hand and the birds and lizards on the other.
• Passing Cochuta about a hundred miles south of Bisbee, we came upon a deposit of fossils.
• Of the very early history fossils tell us little or nothing.
• A short time after the arrival of our travellers, their hostess inquired if they had yet found any fossils.
• The remains of that fish are among the most beautiful and well-preserved of the fossils found in our English chalk.
• I mean finding himself with just the squaws and the fossils left around when we come along.
• The origin of the whalebone-whales and their relations to the toothed-whales cannot yet be determined, since the necessary fossils have not been discovered.
• Lastly, as we come nearer to recent times, we find fossils of the existing horse, with the lateral toes shortened up to the condition of splint-bones.
• How many tons of these fossils have since been dug up from these deposits in the Rocky Mountains is beyond computation.
• Marsh was on his way to explore the region in the Rocky Mountains where he was to find the fossils which have since made his work most celebrated.
• A paltry exhibit of coins, antiquities, and fossils forms the Museum.
• But we find that they are unaltered limestone and contain fossils.
• I am convinced that all our ancient formations, which are rich in fossils, have thus been formed during subsidence.
• Hence we can understand the rule that the most ancient fossils differ most from existing forms.
• Professor Marsh had heard of this discovery, and was eager to find some of the same kind of fossils.
• It became famous, and in the summer of 1871 Professor Marsh, of Yale College, brought out a party of students to search for fossils.
• Actually asked me, of her own accord, of the fossils in the Park quarry, and a very acute question concerning the lords of the marches.

Similar words containing FOSSIL without suffix s

fossil9 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

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