(old) fossil
1fossil — /ˈfɒsəl / (say fosuhl) noun 1. any remains, impression, or trace of an animal or plant of a former geological age, as a skeleton or a footprint. 2. Colloquial an outdated or old fashioned person or thing: *That old fossil here? –david williamson …
2fossil — 1. n. an old fashioned person. □ Some old fossil called the police about the noise. □ Oh, Tad, you are such a fossil. 2. n. a parent. □ My fossils would never agree to anything like that. □ …
3Fossil (file system) — Fossil is the default file system in Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It serves the network protocol 9P and runs as a user space daemon, like most Plan 9 file servers. Fossil is different from most other file systems due to its snapshot/archival feature.… …
4Old World monkey — Old World monkeys[1] Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent …
5Old World porcupine — Old World porcupines Temporal range: Early Miocene–Recent …
6Fossil group — Fossil Galaxy Groups, fossil Groups, or fossil clusters are believed to be the end result of galaxy merging within a normal galaxy group, leaving behind the X ray halo. Galaxies within a group interact and merge. The physical process behind this… …
7Fossil Cycad National Monument — was a national monument in the U.S. state of South Dakota beginning in 1922. The site contained hundreds of fossil cycads, one of the world s greatest concentrations. Because vandals stole or destroyed all of the visible fossils, it was withdrawn …
8Old-growth forest — Old growth redirects here. For the Dead Meadow album, see Old Growth (album). See also: Ancient woodland Old growth European Beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro …
9Old Red Sandstone — Stratigraphic range: Late Silurian to earliest Carboniferous Cross section showing quartz and chert pebbles in a sample from central England (scale bar is 10 mm). Type Geological formation …
10fossil — [fäs′əl] n. [Fr fossile < L fossilis, dug out, dug up < fossus, pp. of fodere, to dig up < IE * bhedh , to dig in the earth > Welsh bedd, grave, OE bedd, BED] 1. Obs. any rock or mineral dug out of the earth 2. any hardened remains or …
