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What does fossilize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fossilize? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) to make into a fossil
  2. (intransitive) to become a fossil
  3. (figuratively, by extension, intransitive) to become inflexible or outmoded
  4. (figuratively, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
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The fact is that organisms fossilize only under certain specific conditions.
However, most modern dinocysts reach sediments before germination, and some of these can fossilize without excystment structure formation.
They fossilize readily and in recognizable form because the interlocking desmas retain the original form of the sponge.
It is argued that due to the practical constraints imposed on L2 learning, a majority of L2 words fossilize at the second stage.
Thus, for example, he argues that such elements were present in osteostraci, but failed to fossilize.
Morphological species are important in palaeontology, for interbreeding ability does not fossilize.

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