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mesofossil

mesofossil noun: a fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.

Noun

mesofossil (plural mesofossils)

  1. A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
    • The mesofossils are small, three-dimensional and charcoalified or lignitized and yield exquisite structural details when studied with scanning electron microscopy.1999, XVI International Botanical Congress, Abstracts, International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies, page 180
    • The present study, based on the morphology of leaves and reproductive organs, reveals much more diversified mesofossil plant assemblages.2012, Bernard Gomez et al., “10: Mesofossil Plant Remains from the Barremian of Hautrage (Mons Basin, Belgium), with Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Paleoenvironment Insights”, in Pascal Godefroit...

Forms of mesofossil

pluralmesofossils
alternative formmeso-fossil

Origin of mesofossil

From meso- + fossil.

Questions about mesofossil

What does mesofossil mean?
Mesofossil means a fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
What part of speech is mesofossil?
Mesofossil is a noun.
What is the plural of mesofossil?
The plural of mesofossil is mesofossils.

Words near mesofossil in the dictionary

  1. mesofluidics
  2. mesofosette
  3. mesofosettes
  4. mesofossettid
  5. mesofossettids
  6. mesofossil
  7. mesofossils
  8. mesofrontal
  9. mesofrontocortical
  10. mesofurca
  11. mesofurcae

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