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Word Meanings - MILLEPORITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fossil millepore.

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  • FOSSILIZATION
    The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  • FOSSIL
    Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
  • FOSSILIST
    One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
  • FOSSILIZED
    Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
  • MILLEPORE
    Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.
  • FOSSILIZE
    1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. 2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her
  • FOSSILISM
    1. The science or state of fossils. Coleridge. 2. The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
  • FOSSILIFEROUS
    Containing or composed of fossils.
  • FOSSILIFICATION
    The process of becoming fossil.
  • CORK FOSSIL
    A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

 

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