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prefossilized

prefossilized adjective: fossilized earlier than surrounding material.

Adjective

prefossilized (not comparable)

  1. Fossilized earlier than surrounding material.
    • 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?2007 May 24, Edward Rothstein, “Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs”, in New York Times

Origin of prefossilized

From pre- + fossilized.

Questions about prefossilized

What does prefossilized mean?
Prefossilized means fossilized earlier than surrounding material.
What part of speech is prefossilized?
Prefossilized is an adjective.

Words near prefossilized in the dictionary

  1. preformulation
  2. preformulations
  3. prefossette
  4. prefossettes
  5. prefossilization
  6. prefossilized
  7. prefoveal
  8. prefractionated
  9. prefractionating
  10. prefractionation
  11. prefractionations

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