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What is the adjective for fossilate?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs fossilize, fossilise and fossilify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fossilised
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fossilized.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Even more remarkable than the evidence of prehistoric man was the discovery of thousands of fossilised animal bones.”
      “Mammoth skulls are made of light and thin bone and usually disintegrate before they can be fossilised.”
      “Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes.”
fossilized
  1. In a state of fossilization; preserved in rock.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ossified, hardened, petrified, fixed, lapidified, rigidified, calcified, solidified, rocklike, obstinate, unbending, inflexible, uncompromising, unyielding, stubborn, obdurate, wilful, dogged, adamant, intransigent, implacable, immovable, headstrong, pertinacious, mulish, perverse, opinionated, unrelenting, willful, hard, pigheaded, hardheaded, bullheaded, adamantine, inconvincible, pat, rigid, solid, frozen, démodé, ingrained, indurated, established, bony, stiff-necked, hard-nosed, hard-and-fast, deep-seated, self-willed, self-opinionated … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The teenagers take the frozen caveman to paleontologists who study the intact, fossilized remains.”
      “It's like the fossilized idea of American manhood.”
fossiled
  1. fossilized; converted into a fossil
fossilizable
  1. Able to be converted into a fossil
fossiliferous
  1. Containing fossils.
  2. Examples:
      3. “These rocks are thought to be Ordovician in age based on correlation with fossiliferous rocks at the same structural horizon near Nyalam.”
      “The section is very fossiliferous, with an abundant brachiopod, bryozoan, coral, and phacopsid trilobite assemblage.”
      “The La Meseta Formation is the best exposed and most fossiliferous rock unit of Eocene age in Antarctica.”
fossilizing
  1. present participle of fossilize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. hardening, solidifying, ossifying, petrifying, calcifying, fossilating, fossilifying, turning into stone, setting, stiffening, congealing, freezing, indurating, clotting, caking, concreting, jelling, densifying, curdling, firming, cementing, amalgamating, firming up, fixing, crystallizing, thickening, coagulating, baking, annealing, rigidifying, gelatinizing, strengthening, settling, precipitating, consolidating, crystallising, gelling, drying, cohering, tempering, toughening, going hard, getting hard, bracing, harshening, fortifying, girding, inspissating, buttressing, vitrifying … more
fossilising
  1. present participle of fossilise
fossilified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fossilify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fossilised, fossilized, hardened, solidified, ossified, petrified, calcified, fossilated, turned into stone
fossilifying
  1. present participle of fossilify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fossilising, fossilizing, hardening, solidifying, ossifying, petrifying, calcifying, fossilating, turning into stone
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