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fos•sil
Pronunciation: (fos'ul), [key]
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n.
1. any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
2. a markedly outdated or old-fashioned person or thing.
3. a linguistic form that is archaic except in certain restricted contexts, as
nonce in
for the nonce, or that follows a rule or pattern that is no longer productive, as the sentence
So be it.
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adj.
1. of the nature of a fossil:
fossil insects.
2. belonging to a past epoch or discarded system; antiquated:
a fossil approach to economics. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
