Word Meanings - ECHINITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fossil echinoid.

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• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• FOSSIL
  Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
• FOSSILIST
  One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
• FOSSILIZED
  Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
• FOSSILIZE
  1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. 2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her
• FOSSILISM
  1. The science or state of fossils. Coleridge. 2. The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
• FOSSILIFEROUS
  Containing or composed of fossils.
• ECHINOID
  Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea. -- n.
• ECHINOIDEA
  The class Echinodermata which includes the sea urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.
• FOSSILIFICATION
  The process of becoming fossil.
• CORK FOSSIL
  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• PALEECHINOIDEA
  An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palæechini.