(a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
(a.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
(n.) A substance dug from the earth.
(n.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
(n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(3) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(4) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
(5) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(6) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(7) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(8) Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers.
(9) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(10) The first report, released last September in Stockholm , found humans were the "dominant cause" of climate change, and warned that much of the world's fossil fuel reserves would have to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change.
(11) The methods described make possible the preparation of fossil samples for light nad transmission electron microscopy.
(12) This would force them to move rapidly away from fossil fuels in just a few years, something which they say is impossible to do given their limited finances and need to improve the lives of their people.
(13) That means eliminating fossil fuel subsidies as well.
(14) The branching pattern derived from the DNA comparisons is congruent with the fossil evidence and supported by comparative biochemical, chromosomal, and morphological studies.
(15) This method ensures the good preservation of spatial relations between bone elements essential for studies of fossil bones, which are sometimes very brittle.
(16) Driven by a desire to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and promote a secure supply of energy, the government of Albania has been very eager to encourage increased investment in renewable energy and in 2013 a law was passed to promote renewable energy .
(17) What the Chinese want is resources, especially fossil fuels.
(18) Each country can discover how much CO2 it emits by calculating the volume of fossil fuels it burns, usually through imports and the tax system.
(19) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(20) ('76), viz., that the fossil is "unique" among Hominoids, is essentially correct.
Mycology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.
Example Sentences:
(1) The information service provided by the Review of Medical and Veterinary Mycology is described and compared with other information services.
(2) Epidemiological an mycological data of a 30 years long study on 366 cases of tinea manuum.
(3) Of a total of 1950 patients with various pneumologic affections 115 cases were selected, on the basis of positive mycologic results on examination of the bronchial aspirate.
(4) An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital.
(5) By the 2-week follow-up visit 9 additional patients were healed, and 4 weeks after treatment all 20 patients were both clinically and mycologically healed.
(6) One week after the start of therapy the mycological cure rate was 87% in the ketoconazole group and 95% in the miconazole group, indicating that both regimens are equally effective.
(7) Mycological and clinical investigations were carried out in 193 homosexual men, 83 of whom had HIV antibodies, and 117 heterosexual men.
(8) They were clinically not suspicious of candidosis and had no remarkable mycological findings.
(9) Mycological tests were made in 212 patients who had lesions with clinical appearance of dermatophytic infection.
(10) The mycologic and pathophysiologic characteristics of tinea versicolor infection are discussed, and several hypothesis are offered to explain the presence of tinea versicolor in these patients.
(11) With miconazole, only 79% (19 of 24 patients) became mycologically negative during treatment and this figure decreased further to 74% (14 of 19 patients) after therapy.
(12) This was concomitantly confirmed by histopathological and mycological studies of biopsy specimens obtained from the lesion at an interval of several weeks.
(13) The Sabouraud medium conventionally used for medical mycology makes almost no distinction among them.
(14) The postflight phase of the Apollo MEED mycology attempts to identify survival according to exposure to specific quantitative space flight factors, while the second phase of studies identifies qualitative change other than cell survival [57].
(15) It was shown that for the mycological examination of certain foods the ADM medium can make an important contribution to the identification of potential aflatoxin producers.
(16) within 5 days, in contrast to the average of 33 days required by the routine mycological procedure.
(17) The efficacy and tolerability of itraconazole in chromoblastomycosis due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi were evaluated in a non-comparative open clinical trial in 19 Brazilian patients with histopathologically and mycologically proven active chromoblastomycosis.
(18) The cream preparation and solution of lactoconazole at concentrations of more than 0.25% were highly effective in either tinea models, and at concentrations of more than 1%, lactoconazole achieved complete mycological cure.
(19) The overall cure rate (patients with both clinical and mycological cure) at the end of treatment for tioconazole treated patients was 78%, for the comparative imidazole group it was 76% and for vehicle cream it was 39%.
(20) Clinical data on 1068 cases of dermatophytosis as well as mycological data on 382 of these cases seen from March 1983 to September 1984 are reported.