Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fossil record

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English

Syllables: fos-sil record
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The collective record of biological development that is reflected in the fossilized remains of organisms through geological history.

noun

The record of preserved evidence for a single species or taxon.

Example Sentences

"Paleontologists study the fossil record."
"But the more that was learned about the fossil record, the more difficult it was to maintain that an entire age, spanning tens of millions of years, had somehow or other gone missing."
"Trilobites have an extensive fossil record."

Inflected Forms

fossil records (plural)

Questions

What does fossil record mean?: The collective record of biological development that is reflected in the fossilized remains of organisms through geological history.

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