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Fossilize meaning
To make into a fossil. | To become a fossil. | To become inflexible or outmoded.
Example sentences (4)
You don’t want to fossilize by permitting no one in here but yourselves,” one said.
These occur on the remainder of the body—although some feathers did not fossilize and others were obliterated during preparation, leaving bare patches on specimens—and the lower neck.
They are fairly common relative to demosponges as fossils, but this is thought to be, at least in part, because their spicules are sturdier than spongin and fossilize better.
This is because only a tiny percentage of animals ever fossilize, and most of these remain buried in the earth.