Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fossil water

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English

Syllables: fos-sil wa-ter
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Water that has remained in an aquifer for a long timespan, usually thousands or millions of years.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

fossil waters (plural)

Synonyms

paleowater

Questions

What does fossil water mean?: Water that has remained in an aquifer for a long timespan, usually thousands or millions of years.

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