| dissilience | (noun) the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe | - |
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| dissilient | (adjective) bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels | - |
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| fissile | (adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain | - |
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| (adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissionable |
| fossil | (adjective) characteristic of a fossil | - |
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| (noun) 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 | - |
| (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy |
| fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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| fossilisation | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilization |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilization |
| fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
| fossilised | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilized, ossified |
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| fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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| fossilization | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilisation |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilisation |
| fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
| fossilized | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilised, ossified |
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| fossilology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: palaeontology, paleontology |
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| fussily | (adverb) in a fussy manner | - |
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| glossily | (adverb) in a glossy manner | - |
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| messily | (adverb) in a messy, untidy manner | Synonyms: untidily |
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| microfossil | (noun) a fossil that must be studied microscopically | - |
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| missile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: projectile |
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| (noun) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | - |
| nonfissile | (adjective) not fissile | - |
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| prissily | (adverb) in a prissy manner | Synonyms: primly |
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| sessile | (adjective) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk | Synonyms: stalkless |
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| (adjective) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about | - |