English Dictionary

fossil

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɒsl̩/

名詞

比喩的用法

The mineralized remains of an animal or plant. / (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.

日本語の意味

動植物の鉱物化した残骸、すなわち化石として保存された遺体や遺構。 / 古生物学において、貝殻、形跡、巣穴、フン石、その他有機由来の化学物質など、古代の生命活動の保存された証拠全般を指す。

The paleontologist carefully brushed away sediment to reveal a fossil embedded in the rock.

古生物学者は堆積物を慎重に取り除き、岩に埋もれた化石を露出させた。

意味（1）

The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.

意味（2）

(paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

意味（3）

(linguistics) A fossil word.

意味（4）

(figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.

意味（5）

(figuratively) An extremely old or outdated person.

I do not want to convey any disrespectful notion or slight when I call those good and learned men fossils, but my experience is that people are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same paths too persistently.

fossils （ plural ）