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Meaning of FOSSILIZATION

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  becoming inflexible or out of date
  2. [n]  the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone
 
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 Synonyms: fossilisation, fossilisation
 
 See Also: action, activity, natural action, natural process, passage, petrifaction, petrification, transition

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Fos`sil*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. fossilisation.]
The process of converting, or of being converted, into a
fossil.
 
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