Vocabulary : Fossilization to Foster

Fossilization : The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
Fossilize : To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. ;; To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. ;; To become fossil. ;; To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
Fossilized : of Fossilize ;; Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.
Fossilizing : of Fossilize
Fossores : A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.

Fossoria : See Fossores.
Fossorial : Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
Fossorious : Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
Fossulate : Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.
Foster : To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. ;; To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius. ;; To be nourished or trained up together. ;; Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood. ;; A forester. ;; One who, or that which, fosters.

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