fossilization
化石化,化石,僵化
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fos·sil·ized, fos·sil·iz·ing.
- : Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- : to change as if into mere lifeless remains or traces of the past.
- : to make rigidly antiquated: Time has fossilized such methods.
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fos·sil·ized, fos·sil·iz·ing.
- : to become a fossil or like a fossil: The plant fossilized in comparatively recent geologic time.
- : Linguistics. to become permanently established in the interlanguage of a second-language learner in a form that is deviant from the target-language norm and that continues to appear in performance regardless of further exposure to the target language.
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Examples
Its skeleton was made of difficult-to-fossilize cartilage, so what scientists do know mostly comes from fossilized teeth.
As kids, my sister and I memorized those tapes, the McDonald’s commercials fossilized in our minds.
Minerals such as calcite make such shells hard and help them to fossilize.
Till men began to wonder at the stratification of rocks, and the fossilization of shells, there was no science of Geology.
A very common kind of fossilization is the preservation of only the hard parts of organisms.
Such hard parts or shells were commonly favorable for fossilization.
This assists fossilization to some degree, and fossil Charas are not uncommon.
To evoking the instincts of bygone ages, which have not been preserved by fossilization?