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unfossilized

  • a word derived from fossilize.
    fossilize
    verb (used with object)
    to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
  • a word derived from fossilized.
    fossilized
    adjective
    (of the remains of an organism) having organic substances replaced with mineral ones; converted into a fossil.

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This child of three years old occupied all the unfossilized portion of Dr. Dolliver's heart.

From The Dolliver Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This child of three years old occupied all the unfossilized portion of good Dr. Dolliver's heart.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

By way of strange contrast in values the pearls were separated from each other by worthless, little, smooth lumps of madrepore, or unfossilized coral.

From The Flying Legion by George Allan England