prefossilized
English
Etymology
pre- + fossilized
Adjective
prefossilized (not comparable)
- Fossilized earlier than surrounding material.
- 2007 May 24, Edward Rothstein, “Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs”, in New York Times:
- The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years?
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Related terms
- prefossilization