Meaning of 'fossil' in Arabic is: الحجري

fossil: الحجري

Noun:

الأحفور, تحجر, عازلة, مهجور, حجر, صخرة.

Adjective:

عفا عليها الزمن, متعفن, ممات, قديم, لاغي, الأحفور.

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Adjective(1) characteristic of a fossil
Noun(1) someone whose style is out of fashion(2) the remains (or an impression(3) the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil(4) organic remains of a previous time

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(1) A plaintiff, therefore, was originally just a person who made a complaint, but the word became a fossil of legal terminology many centuries ago.(2) Then we use the dating of a recently discovered hominid fossil as a calibration point.(3) he can be a cantankerous old fossil at times(4) Who would take care of that crazy old fossil then?(5) a fossil fish(6) For those of you who are surprised that a grumpy old fossil like me actually works on a computer, it is all t'Editor's fault.(7) Marine rocks commonly contain plant fossils but they are outnumbered by more common and spectacular shelly invertebrate fossils .(8) Most of the other scholars were old fossils that seemed so fragile that the slightest breath of wind would keel them over.(9) The decapod fossils are preserved in remarkable detail as molds and as body fossils.(10) Scientific testing has determined that the oldest dinosaur fossils are hundreds of millions of years old.(11) Other marine trace fossils , together with marine bivalves, have been described from the unit as a whole.(12) Pasting on a fake smile, I nodded fervently, no longer eager to study silly fossils of dead organisms.(13) Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.(14) Shallow marine invertebrate fossils occur throughout the formation, but are mainly concentrated in four broad intervals.(15) During that time new hominid fossils have been discovered in Africa.(16) Li and Ding interpreted such structures as metazoan trace fossils .