prefossilized

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English

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Etymology

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From pre- +‎ fossilized.

Adjective

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prefossilized (not comparable)

  1. Fossilized earlier than surrounding material.
    • 2007 May 24, Edward Rothstein, “Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs”, in New York Times[1]:
      The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years?
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