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technofossils

technofossils is the plural of technofossil.

Meaning of technofossil

Noun

technofossil (plural technofossils)

  1. (neologism) A fossil formed from an industrial man-made object or material.
    • Metros are part of the evolving body-fossil, technofossil, trace fossil, and chemical record of the genus Homo that extends back some 2.8 million years in Africa (Villmoare et al., 2015), and is underpinned by a technofossil record of stone tools that is shared with hominins other than Homo...2019, Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers, David Baker, editors, The Routledge Companion to Big History, Routledge, →ISBN

Questions about technofossils

What is technofossils the plural of?
Technofossils is the plural of technofossil.

Words near technofossils in the dictionary

  1. technofeudalists
  2. technofinance
  3. technofix
  4. technofixes
  5. technofossil
  6. technofossils
  7. technofreak
  8. technofreaks
  9. technofunctional
  10. technofunk
  11. technogeek

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