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fossilizer

fossilizer noun: that which causes or undergoes fossilization.

Noun

fossilizer (plural fossilizers)

  1. That which causes or undergoes fossilization.
    • Because their wood contains so much water, and fallen baobabs decompose so quickly, the trees are poor fossilizers.2007, Rupert Watson, The African Baobab, page 14
    • When they refuse, she turns her fossilizer ray on them then returns to the 25th century to dig them up.2015, Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy, The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition

Forms of fossilizer

pluralfossilizers

Origin of fossilizer

From fossilize + -er.

Questions about fossilizer

What does fossilizer mean?
Fossilizer means that which causes or undergoes fossilization.
What part of speech is fossilizer?
Fossilizer is a noun.
What is the plural of fossilizer?
The plural of fossilizer is fossilizers.

Words near fossilizer in the dictionary

  1. fossilization
  2. fossilizations
  3. fossilize
  4. fossilized
  5. fossilized lightning
  6. fossilizer
  7. fossilizers
  8. fossilizes
  9. fossilizing
  10. fossillike
  11. fossilogical

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